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| 4448 | ROBB-WEBB, Jon. The British Pacific Fleet: Experience and Legacy 1944-50. 320p., bibliog., illus., index Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. ISBN: 9780754668510. The British Pacific Fleet (BPF) was formed in October 1944 and dispatched to fight alongside the USN in the Central Pacific under Admiral Nimitz. This study explores the role of the BPF and its legacy through each level of war, from the grand strategic, through the military strategic and operational levels down to the tactical level. |
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| 4449 | ROBERTS, Andrew. The Storm of War: a New History of the Second World War. lvi, 712p., bibliog., illus., index. London, Allen Lane, 2009. ISBN: 9780713999709. A modern sweeping overview by a major historian with some limited naval material. |
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| 4450 | ROYLE, Trevor. A Time of Tyrants: Scotland and the Second World War. xiii, 386p., bibliog., illus., index. Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2011. ISBN: 9781843410553. A good general account which looks at Scotland’s role as everything from a convoy base to special operations base and an industrial and military powerhouse. |
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| 4451 | SAUNDERS, Andy. Convoy Peewit August 8, 1940: the First Day of the Battle of Britain? London: Grub Street, 2010. ISBN: 9781906502676. Convoy CW9 “Peewit” was a coastal convoy from Southend to Weymouth. This in depth account of the relentless attacks on its twenty-four small coasters fully covers the day’s action by the RAF, RN, Merchant Navy, Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe. |
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| 4452 | SAUNDERS, Tim. Commandos and Rangers: D Day Operations. 284p., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2012. ISBN: 1844158363. Special Forces played a significant role in the landings. |
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| 4453 | SCHOFIELD, B. B. Stringbags in Action: The Attack on Taranto 1940 & The Loss of the Bismarck 1941. 192p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen and Sword Maritime, 2011. ISBN: 184884388. Originally published as two volumes in the 1970’s as part of the Sea Battles in Close-Up Series from Ian Allan, these are reformatted into a single volume. |
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| 4454 | SEABRIDGE, Allan, MORGAN, Shirley & CHADWICK, David. High Seas to Home: Daily Despatches from a Frigate at War. 190p., bibliog., illus., index. Derby: Derby Books Publishing Company, 2012. ISBN: 9781780910413. Cliff Greenwood was a 40-year old journalist called up in 1943. After training as a Coder he served on Byron in Home Waters, the Arctic and the Atlantic until war’s end. He wrote home every day and his letters are printed here enriched with the reminiscences of crewmates and background detail from the authors. |
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| 4455 | SHIPPERBOTTOM, Percy. Percy's Piece of the War: Exploits of an RAF High Speed Launch Wireless Operator in the UK and Far East During the Second World War. 75p. Bognor Regis: Woodfield, 2010. ISBN: 1846831075. He became a wireless operator with the RAF Marine Branch and served in 1940/41 aboard HSL 120, based in Ramsgate and engaged in air-sea rescue work in the Channel and North Sea, picking up Allied (and sometimes German) airmen whose aircraft had ditched. Later in the war he was posted to the Far East, where he served in the same capacity at No.226 Air Sea Rescue Unit (226 ASRU), based at Chittagong. |
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| 4456 | SHORES, Christopher & MASSIMELLO, Giovanni with GUEST, Russell. A History of the Mediterranean Air War 1940-1945. 4 vols., bibliog., illus., index. London: Grub Street, 2012-16. ISBN: 9781908117076 (V.1); 190916612X (V.2); ISBN: 1910690007 (V.3); ISBN: 9781911621102 (V.4). A monumental reference working describing activity in the theatre day-by-day. Vol. 1 covers June 1940 –January 1942; Vol. 2 covers February 1942 – March 1943; Vol. 3 covers Tunisia and the end in Africa November 1942-May 1943; Vol. 4 covers Sicily and Italy to the Fall of Rome 1943-44; Vol 5. covers the period from the Fall of Rome to the end of the war in 1945. Includes material on maritime support and reconnaissance. |
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| 4457 | SHOWELL, Jak P. Mallmann. Dönitz, U-Boats, Convoys: The British Version of His Memoirs from the Admiralty's Secret Anti-Submarine Reports. xvi, 208p., illus., Barnsley: Frontline, 2013. ISBN: 1848327013. Combines Dönitz’s memoirs in a parallel text with the Admiralty’s secret Monthly Anti-Submarine Reports to give a novel view of the U-Boat war. |
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| 4458 | SINGLETON, Gordon. Singleton’s War. 64p., illus. Pembroke Dock: Paterchurch, 1998. ISBN: 1870745078. An Australian pilot’s autobiography. After extensive training he joined the new 461 squadron, RAAF, at Plymouth before it moved to Pembroke Dock where he flew Sunderlands - and even landed one on an airfield in 1943. |
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| 4459 | SMITH, Colin. Singapore Burning: Heroism and Surrender in World War II. xxii, 628p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Viking, 2005. ISBN: 0670913413. A long and detailed but very readable account of the Malayan battles and the fall of Singapore, with coverage of the major naval happenings. |
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| 4460 | SMITH, David J. Action Stations 3: Military Airfields of Wales and the North-West. 217p., illus., index. illus., index. Cambridge: Patrick Stephens, 1981. ISBN: 0850594855. An alphabetical listing with details of the base, squadrons stationed there and notable events. Good coverage of Fleet Air Arm and Coastal Command Squadrons. A new edition was published in 1990 with a supplement of additions and corrections (ISBN: 1852603755). |
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| 4461 | SMITH, David J. Action Stations. 7: Military Airfields of Scotland, the North-East and Northern Ireland. 232p., illus., index. Cambridge: PSL, 1983. ISBN: 0850595630. An alphabetical listing with details of the base, squadrons stationed there and notable events. Good coverage of Fleet Air Arm and Coastal Command Squadrons. |
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| 4462 | SMITH, David J.B. Being Silent They Speak: The Story of a World War II Submarine UNBEATEN. 225p., bibliog., illus. Plymouth: Stand-Easy, 2013. ISBN: 0957392508. A carefully researched and detailed account of the career of the submarine and her loss in late 1942. |
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| 4463 | SMITH, Malcolm. Voices in Flight: Fleet Air Arm. Recollections From Formation to Cold War. 288p., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Aviation, 2013. ISBN: 1781590923. Personal reminiscences based on the archives of the Fleet Air Arm Museum. |
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| 4464 | SOARS, Thomas. I Married a Princess: the True Love Story of How an English Naval Sub-lieutenant Came to Marry a Persian Princess During World War II. x, 202p., illus. Bognor Regis: Woodfield, 2009. ISBN: 1846830648. He was an administrative officer based at HMS Sphinx - a temporary wartime Royal Navy shore base and accommodation camp at Sidi Bishr, just outside Alexandria, where he met and married a grand-daughter of the former Shah of Persia. Describes his day to day life and its tribulations. |
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| 4465 | STEWART, Adrian. Carriers At War 1939-1945. 228p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Maritime, 2013. ISBN: 1781591563. A well written and useful primer which covers all theatres and all belligerents. |
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| 4466 | STOKES, Peter. No Ordinary Life. 197p., illus. [242p.], FeedARead, 2013. ISBN: 9781784070427. An account of the wartime exploits of his father Horace Stokes. A member of the TA, he quickly moved to 12 Commando, then the Small Scale Raiding Force and finally the SAS, where he took part in many pinprick raids before ending up as a Prisoner of War. Based on his contemporary journal. |
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| 4467 | STREVER-MORKEL, Gail. On Laughter-Silvered Wings: The Story of Lt. Col. E.T. (Ted) Strever D.F.C. xii, 227p., illus. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Aviation, 2013. ISBN: 1781591040. A biographical account of the life and times of a South African WW2 pilot (the author's father). He flew coastal strike missions in the Mediterranean and North Africa, then in the Far East against the Japanese. |
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