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| 4365 | DEARLE, David. In the Shadow of the Commander. viii, 92p., illus., index. Lewes: Book Guild, 1997. ISBN: 1857761545. A biography of the author's uncle, Commander Eric Winthropp Woodruff, using collated diaries and letters. He qualified as an Observer and served in both World Wars, retiring at the end of the latter. Mostly about WW1. |
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| 4366 | DE COURCY, Anne. Debs at War: How Wartime Changed Their Lives. xiv, 258., bibliog., illus., index. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005. ISBN: 0297829300. An entertaining account of the employment of debs during the war, including those in the WRNS. Based on almost fifty individual cases. |
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| 4367 | DILDY, Douglas C. Denmark and Norway 1940: Hitler’s Boldest Operation. 96p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Osprey, 2007. ISBN: 1846031176. A good basic introduction to the campaigns with excellent artwork. Republished in 2009 by Osprey as Book 3 of Osprey’s Battles of World War II. |
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| 4368 | DITCHAM, A. G. F. A Home on the Rolling Main: A Naval Memoir 1940-1946. 348p., illus. Presteigne: author, 2012. ISBN: 1848321759. He joined Renown as a midshipman in 1940, then served in Holderness, Reading and Scorpion, finishing as a Lieutenant having seen service from Kola to Normandy. An enjoyable memoir. |
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| 4369 | DOWNING, Taylor. Churchill’s War Lab. Code-Breakers, Boffins and Innovators: The Mavericks Churchill Led to Victory. xviii, 397p.,bibliog., illus., index. London: Little, Brown, 2010. ISBN: 9781408702055. As much a biography of Churchill as a review of the effect of science on the course of the war. |
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| 4370 | DOWNING, Taylor. Night Raid: The True Story of the First Victorious British Para Raid of WWII. vi, 405p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Little, Brown, 2013. ISBN: 9781408703724. A good up to date account of the Bruneval raid on a radar site and on the naval evacuation. |
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| 4372 | DU CROS, Rosemary. ATA Girl: Memoirs of a Wartime Ferry Pilot. 105p., illus. London: Muller, 1983. ISBN: 0946569002. Entertaining although brief account of service in the Air Transport Auxiliary ferrying aircraft for the RAF and Fleet Air Arm. |
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| 4373 | DUNMORE, Spencer. Wings for Victory: The Remarkable Story of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in Canada. 399p., bibliog., illus., index. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1994. ISBN: 0771029276. Gives an excellent insight into the overseas training of aircrew. Has some relevance to Coastal Command and anti-shipping strike squadrons. |
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| 4374 | SAUNDERS, Tim. Commandos and Rangers: D Day Operations. 284p., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2012. ISBN: 18441583683. Special forces played a significant role in the landings. |
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| 4375 | ZUEHLKE, Mark. Juno Beach : Canada's D-Day victory: June 6, 1944. 415p., bibliog., illus., index. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2005. ISBN: 1553650506. A good popular account of the Canadian experience. First volume of a trilogy which looks at the post D-Day and break out operations. Reprinted in the UK by Orca in 2012 as Assault on Juno (ISBN: 1459800362). |
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| 4376 | EBERLE, James. Life on the Ocean Wave: The Second Book of Admiral Jim, A Trilogy. vi, 255p., illus. Broompark: Roundtuit, 2007. ISBN: 1904499163. This volume covers his war service. He went to Dartmouth in 1941. He was appointed to a flotilla of fast patrol boats based at Newhaven in summer 1944. He soon went to Renown based at Trincomalee, only to return with her to the UK and join Belfast in June 1945 as she readied to sail for the Pacific Fleet. |
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| 4377 | EDWARDS, Bernard. Convoy Will Scatter: The Full Story of Jervis Bay and Convoy HX84. 192p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Maritime, 2013. ISBN: 9781781593769. Focuses on the role of unsung heroes. |
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| 4378 | FORRESTER-BROWN, Glennys E. A Diver's Escapades: The Early Life and Wartime Experiences of Joe Forrester - A Lad from the Potteries Who Served in the Royal Navy During World War II. 126p., illus. Bognor Regis: Woodfield, 2012. ISBN: 184683127X. A biography by his daughter but based on contemporary notes. He joined the Royal Navy in 1926, at the age of 17, and was with Emerald in Ceylon in 1939. He was sunk in Curlew in Norwegian waters in 1940. Later, as a gunner on Prince of Wales, he was involved in the Bismarck action and was sunk with her in the Japanese air attack. He escaped hidden on a native ship and made it to Ceylon. Here he was involved in salvage work as a diver on the salvage vessel Salviking for the next two years. He was aboard when she was torpedoed and sunk near the Maldives. Once again, he was fortunate to survive. |
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| 4379 | FRENCH, John. Catalina Over Arctic Oceans: Anti-Submarine and Rescue Flying in World War II. 180p., illus. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Aviation, 2013. ISBN: 1781590532. A long and varied career is described with relish. |
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| 4380 | FULLERTON, Alexander. Submariner. London: Sphere, 2008. ISBN: 1847441750. |
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| 4381 | GORDON-CUMMING, H. R. Official History of the South African Naval Forces during the Second World War (1939-45). xix, 352p., illus., index. Simon's Town: Naval Heritage Trust of South Africa, 2008. ISBN: 0620432764. The first narrative of the South African Naval Forces during the Second World War was written by Cdr H.R. Gordon-Cumming for the Union War Histories Section in the Office of the Prime Minister and appears to have been completed in December 1950. A number of chapters from this work were included in War In the Southern Oceans 1939-45 which was published by OUP in 1961.This was co-authored by Gordon-Cumming, and became known as the “short history”, drawing on material now published in full for the first time as the “long history”. |
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| 4382 | GRAINGER, John D. Traditional Enemies: Britain’s War With Vichy France 1940-1942. 272p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2013. ISBN: 1781591547. A modern account of the various actions between the two states. |
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| 4383 | GREAT BRITAIN. Admiralty. The Royal Navy and the Mediterranean (Whitehall Histories: Naval Staff Histories). 2 vols., illus., index. London: Frank Cass, 2002. ISBN: 0714651796 (V.1); 0714652059 (V.2). These confidential volumes were prepared by the Naval Historical Branch for internal use in 1952 and are published in facsimile for the first time. Volume 1 covers September 1939 to October 1940 and volume 2 covers November 1940 to December 1941. There is a new introduction by David Brown. |
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| 4384 | GREENE, Jack. & MASSIGNANI, Alessandro. Hitler Strikes North: the Nazi Invasion of Norway & Denmark, 9 April 1940. xiv, 335p., illus. Barnsley: Frontline, 2013. ISBN: 1848326610. An account of Operation Weserubing, Germany's combined air, sea and land assault on Denmark and Norway offering a novel perspective. |
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| 4385 | GREGORY-SMITH, FRANK. Red Tobruk: Memoirs of a World War II Destroyer Commander. viii, 200p., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2008. ISBN: 1844158624. An autobiography. He went to Dartmouth in 1922 and by 1939 was First Lieutenant of Jaguar. After Norway and Dunkirk he stood by Eridge as her new captain. On completion she moved to the Mediterranean and a hectic war with eighteen months of convoys to Tobruk and Malta. In August 1942 she was torpedoed by an Italian MTB. Under constant air attack, she was towed to Alexandria, but was irreparable. This Mediterranean period forms the heart of the book. A brief coda describes his role as a D-Day Beachmaster. |
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