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| 422 | KENNEDY, Ludovic. Pursuit: The Chase and Sinking of the Bismarck. 254p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Collins; New York: Viking, 1974. ISBN: 0002117398.
A vivid account of the hunt by the well known writer and broadcaster who was a Sub lieutenant at the time. |
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| 423 | KONSTAM, Angus. Hunt the Bismarck (Great Naval Battles, 1). 96p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Compendium; Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2003. ISBN: 1861761988.
A short, basic, readable modern account enlivened with computer graphics and web-links |
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| 424 | McMURTRIE, F. E. The Cruise of the Bismarck. 70p., illus. London: Hutchinson, [1941].
A rapidly prepared short account of the action. |
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| 425 | MEARNS, David & WHITE, Rob. Hood and Bismarck. 224p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Channel 4 Books, 2001.
Intertwines the story of the Bismarck's last cruise with the 2001 deep sea expedition which discovered both wrecks, allowing a reassessment of the causes of the sinkings. ISBN: 0752220357. |
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| 426 | RHYS-JONES, Graham. The Loss of the Bismarck: An Avoidable Disaster. 255p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Cassell, 1999. ISBN: 0304355100.
A very modern account which concentrates on strategy and the effects of the fog of war. |
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| 427 | SCHOFIELD, Brian B. The Loss of the Bismarck (Sea Battles in Close-Up, no. 3). 96p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Ian Allan; Annapolis: NIP, 1972. ISBN: 0711002657.
An excellent operational history. Republished in 2011 by Pen & Sword with Schofield's account of the attack on Taranto as Stringbags in Action. ISBN: 9781848843882. |
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| 428 | SHIRER, William L. All about the Sinking of the Bismarck. 136p., bibliog., illus., index. New York: Random House, 1962; London: W. H. Allen, 1963.
A basic and basically accurate account. US title: The Sinking of the Bismarck. |
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| 429 | SKWIOT, Miroslaw Zbigniew & PRUSINOWSKA, Elzbieta Teresa. Hunting the Bismarck. 200p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Crowood, 2006. ISBN: 186126819X.
First published in Poland in 2004, this is another attempt to retell the story claiming to have uncovered new facts. It is profusely illustrated and has a lot of technical detail. |
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| 430 | TAYLOR, Theodore. HMS Hood vs Bismarck: The Battleship Battle (Great Sea Battles of World War II, no. 2). 135p., illus. New York: Avon Books, 1982.
A dramatic account of the hunt and action aimed especially at younger readers. |
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| 431 | WINKLARETH, Robert J. The Bismarck Chase: New Light on a Famous Engagement. 188p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Chatham; Annapolis: NIP, 1998. ISBN: 1861760760. A detailed account “correcting several discrepancies in earlier accounts” and concluding firmly that one of Hood’s after magazines was hit. Covers the whole background to the action. |
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| 432 | GANNON, Michael. Black May. xxviii, 492p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Aurum; New York: Harper-Collins, 1998. ISBN: 0060178191.
A scholarly operational history of the convoy battles that led to the defeat of the U-boats in May 1943. |
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| 433 | HAGEDORN, Daniel P. Alae Supra Canalem: Wings over the Canal: The Sixth Air Force and the Antilles Air Command. 208p., illus. Paducah, Ky.: Turner Publications, 1997. ISBN: 1563111535.
The 6th Air Force and Antilles Air Command defended the Panama Canal and won the sub war in the Caribbean. |
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| 434 | HAINING, Peter. The Jail That Went to Sea: An Untold Story of the Battle of the Atlantic, 1941-42. 192p., bibliog.., illus., index. London: Robson, 2003. ISBN: 1861055617.
A lurid and overblown account of high Scottish criminals were virtually pressganged into signing up as crewmen for the ss George Washington, briefly taken up by the Ministry of War Transport as a troopship. |
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| 435 | HERZ, Norman. Operation Alacrity: The Azores and the War in the Atlantic. [xvii], 368p., bibliog., index. Annapolis; Naval Institute press, 2004. ISBN: 1591143640.
A very American view of the little known operation to take control of the islands in late 1943. The author participated as an engineering corporal in the Seabees at that time and has tracked down the official sources to produce a creditable work on an episode of bickering and rivalry. |
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| 436 | HIRD, David M. The Grey Wolves of Eriboll. xvi, 144p., bibliog, illus. Dunbeath: Whittles, 2010. ISBN: 9781904445326.
Tells the tale of the surrender of the German U-boats in 1945. Many were sent to Loch Eriboll in Scotland. |
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| 437 | HOW, Douglas. Night of the Caribou. 154p., illus. Hantsport, N.S.: Lancelot, 1988. ISBN: 0889994102.
An hour by hour account of the last voyage of the Nova Scotia-to-Newfoundland ferry Caribou, sunk by U 69. The heavy loss of life makes this still a controversial incident in the history of Canada's war. |
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| 438 | JONES, Geoffrey P. Autumn of the U-Boats. 224p., illus., index. London: Kimber, 1984. ISBN: 0718305345.
An ordinary but well-illustrated account that deals with the twilight of the U-boats in the autumn Atlantic Campaign of 1943. |
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| 439 | JONES, Geoffrey P. Defeat of the Wolfpacks. 223p., illus., index. London: Kimber, 1986; Novato: Presidio, 1987. ISBN: 0718305892. Catalogues the loss of 35 U-boats in the winter of 1943–44, in the style of his earlier work. |
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| 440 | JONES, Geoffrey P. Month of the Lost U-Boats. 207p., illus., index. London: Kimber, 1977. ISBN: 0718302052.
Looks at May 1943 and individually examines the fates of the 41 U-boats lost in that period. |
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| 441 | LAMBERT, John W. Atlantic Air War: Sub Hunters vs. U-Boats (Air Combat Photo History Series, vol. 4). 111p., illus. North Branch, Maine: Specialty, 1999. ISBN: 1580070159.
A photo-essay concerned especially with the aircraft. |
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