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| 4892 | 9876. Rhubarb, wine blah blah |
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| 4895 | MAWDSLEY, Evan. The War for the Seas: A Maritime History of World War II. xlii, 557p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Yale U.P., 2019. ISBN: 9780300190199. A professional historian offers a sweeping. magisterial view of the war at sea covering all theatres and participants. |
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| 4896 | TUTE, Warren. The True Glory: The Story of the Royal Navy over a Thousand Years.288p., bibliog., illus., index. ISBN: 0060152125. A substantial popular history with a large section on WW2. |
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| 4897 | GREAT BRITAIN. Admiralty. The Evacuation from Dunkirk: 'Operation Dynamo', 26 May-June 1940. xiv, 210p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Routledge, 2000. ISBN: 9780714651200. First produced in 1949 as the internally published Battle Summary No. 41, q.v., this is now published with a strong introduction by W.J.R. Gardner. |
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| 4898 | LEPAGE, Jean-Denis. Torpedo Bombers 1900-1950. vi, 394p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Aviation, 2020. ISBN: 9781526763471. A very basic guide with rather poor illustrations. |
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| 4899 | STEWART, Adrian. The War with Hitler’s Navy. 212p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Maritime, 2018. ISBN: 9781526710574. A good general history based on secondary sources which retells the story of how the Kriegsmarine faced the Royal Navy. It has a particular focus on how political thinking guided developments. |
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| 4900 | WALTER, Brian E. The Longest Campaign: Britain’s Maritime Struggle in the Atlantic and Northwest Europe, 1939-1945. xiv, [iii], 324p., bibliog., illus., index. Oxford: Casemate, 2020. ISBN: 9781612008561. A comprehensive chronological account which is driven by statistical analysis. Much interesting data, but a difficult read. |
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| 4902 | BUCKTON, Henry. Retreat: Dunkirk and the Evacuation of Western Europe. 256p., bibliog., illus., index. Stroud: Amberley, 2017. ISBN: 9781445664828. Covers all of the evacuations from Dunkirk to Bordeaux. A routine retelling. |
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| 4903 | GREHAN, John & NICOLL, Alexander. Dunkirk Evacuation - Operation Dynamo: Nine Days that Saved an Army (Images of War). 168p., illus. Barnsley: Frontline, 2020. ISBN: 9781526770356. An excellent set of images captures the essence of these few frenetic days. |
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| 4904 | JACOBSEN, Hans-Adolf. Dunkirk: German Operations in France 1940. xxx, 234p., bibliog., illus., index. Oxford: Casemate, 2019. ISBN: 9781612006598. Originally published in German in 1958, this is the first appearance of an English translation. Although much has been written and researched in the last sixty years this is a good solid account which is unusual in offering a German perspective. |
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| 4905 | LEVINE, Joshua. Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture. 255p., bibliog., illus., index. London: William Collins; New York: Harper Collins, 2017. ISBN: 9780008227876. Originally published: as Forgotten Voices of Dunkirk in 2010. Although the same personal memories are used, they are completely reworked and the book is updated and an interview with the film director added. Republished in 2019 as Dunkirk & Operation Fortitude: Two Missions That Changed the Fate of World War II, published by William Collins (ISBN: 9780007978717. |
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| 4906 | MACE, Martin. The Royal Navy at Dunkirk: Commanding Officers’ Accounts of British Warships in Action During Operation Dynamo. ixx, [that is xix], 428 pages, illus. Barnsley: Frontline, 2017. ISBN: 9781473886728. The Admiralty issued an order requiring the Commanding Officers of those British warships involved in the evacuation to submit a report detailing their actions. These carefully organised accounts bring to life the chaos, professional skill, bravery and improvisation which made Operation Dynamo a success. |
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| 4907 | SCHENK, Peter. Operation Sealion: The Invasion of England 1940. x, 326p., illus., index. Barnsley Greenhill. ISBN: 9781784383947. This appears to be a retitled version of his 1990 work Invasion of England 1940 with a new foreword. An excellent detailed technical study. |
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| 4908 | WRAGG, David. Operation Sealion: Hitler’s Invasion Plan for Britain. xii, 239p., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2017. ISBN: 9781473867383. Another title from this prolific author. A rather poor derivative potboiler with many errors. |
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| 4909 | REEVES, M. C. Russian Convoys Sept. 1941 – May 1945 (NHSA Monograph 47). 13p, illus. Garden Island, NSW: Naval Historical Society of Australia, 1995. A lecture given to the Society which focuses on the role of the cruiser Berwick. Reprinted in 2002 as Monograph 147. |
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| 4910 | GEROUX, William. The Ghost Ships of Archangel: The Arctic Voyage That Defied the Nazis. 337p., illus. New York: Viking, 2019. ISBN: 9780525557463. A dramatic account of PQ17 based on personal accounts, which focuses on four of the ships in the convoy. During the height of the attacks on July 5, the armed trawler Ayrshire escorted the merchantmen Silver Sword, Ironclad and Troubadour, in a dash directly into the ice barrier. Once anchored, the ships’ crews painted their superstructures white to camouflage the vessels. Then, moving slowly along the ice edge and skirting the eastern extremes of the Barents Sea, the four ships eventually made port. |
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| 4911 | GREAT BRITAIN. War Office. The Dieppe Raid: The Combined Operations Assault on Hitler’s European Fortress August 1942 – An Official History. 314p., bibliog., illus. Barnsley: Frontline, 2019. ISBN: 9781526752918. This official history was first produced in 1944 ahead of D-Day as an operational narrative and identification of lessons learned. It was revised at war’s end to incorporate lessons from captured German documents. These were private government publications (Battle Summary 33) and are now publicly published for the first time. |
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| 4912 | FREEMAN, Richard. Atlantic Nightmare: Winning the Longest Military Campaign of World War II. 390p., bibliog., illus., index. [n.p.], author, 2019. ISBN: 978179266729. Originally an e-book, this edition by the author of several naval works is a chronological account of the battle, which firmly places the defeat of the U-boats in German strategic errors. |
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| 4913 | WIBERG, Eric. U-Boats in the Bahamas. 377p., bibliog., illus., index. Dering Harbor, NY: Brick Tower Press, 2016. ISBN: 9781899694624. A very well written account of the neglected subject of naval warfare around the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands. |
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| 4914 | OLDFIELD, Paul. Bruneval (Battleground Europe). 198p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Battleground, 2013. ISBN: 978178159067 A good basic account of the raid. |
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