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| 4976 | BAILEY, Geoff B. The Forth Front: Falkirk District’s Maritime Contribution to World War II. [8], 408p., bibliog., illus., index. Falkirk: Falkirk Local History Society, 2013. ISBN: 9780956048059. Largely based on local documents and reminiscences, this charts the areas work in shipbuilding, repair, ship conversion, provision of supplies and men – and even HMS Hood’s use of the local laundry!
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| 4977 | BARCLAY, Gordon & MORRIS, Ron. The Fortification of the Firth of Forth 1880-1977. Xxi, 247p., bibliog., illus., index. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2019. ISBN: 9781908332141. A historical study, followed by a geographical description of the defences, accompanied by excellent plans. An excellent study. |
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| 4978 | MALCOLM, Ian M. Dangerous Seas 1939-1945. v, 227p., bibliog., illus. Broughty Ferry: Moira Brown, 2017. ISBN: 9781520753775. A compilation of four short Kindle Books. These are Dangerous Voyaging and Dangerous Voyaging 2, both based on brief accounts of individual convoys, often with a personal story. Fortunes of War briefly lists the war service of merchant ships chronicled in Vol. 14 of the Marine Observer for 1937, plus descriptions of three wartime voyages made by a friend, Douglas Cameron. The final volume, Mined Coasts, is a list of British merchant ships damaged or sunk by mines, with brief details of the circumstances. |
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| 4979 | KNOTT, Richard. Flying Boats of the Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Ships of the Sky.272p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Hale, 2011. ISBN: 9780709087595. Some forty-two Empire Flying Boats were built for Imperial Airways and this is their story. Almost 100 pages cover their war service. Rather like the Merchant Navy, they served in all theatres and suffered heavy casualties. There is also a brief account of how these developed into the Sunderland flying boat. A fascinating and well told tale. |
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| 4980 | MURCH, Muriel, MURCH, David & FAIRWEATHER, Len. The American Forces at Salcombe and Slapton in World War Two. 40p., illus. Plymouth: [authors], 1984. A collection of annotated photographs, demonstrating the American presence in south-west England in the run up to D-Day.
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| 4981 | JUBELIN, Andre. The Flying Sailor. 276p., illus., index. London: Hurst & Blackett, 1953. Translated from the 1951 French original, Marin de Metier – Pilote de Fortune. The author left his ship in the Far East to join the Free French forces. He reached England in 1941 and took command of the depot ship Courbet. When she was laid up, he took command of the First French Naval Air Squadron which fitted out with Spitfires and was operational in the South of England. He moved briefly to night-fighters before taking command of the sloop Savorgnan de Brazza in late 1942. The book ends with the sloop’s first voyage to Gibraltar, but a publisher’s note describes the rest of his career |
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| 4982 | STELLA-SAWICKI, Marek, GARLINSKI, Jarek and MUCHA, Stefan (eds.). First to Fight: Poland’s Contribution to the Allied Victory in WWII. xviii, 278p., bibliog., illus. [London]: Polish Ex-Combatants Association of Great Britain, 2009. ISBN: 9780955782442. A heavily illustrated mix of history and personal reminiscences, with a small section on the Polish Navy. |
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| 4983 | MURRAY, Allan A. HMAS Australia: Last of Her Luck. (Men and Ships at War, Book 5). 67p., illus. [n.p.]: Family Murray Trust, 2018. ISBN: 9781973123545. The fifth and final volume in this family history series records the wartime career of the cruiser until her luck ran out. Also records the service of the author’s great uncle who served as an Able Seaman. |
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| 4984 | MURRAY, Allan A. HMAS Nepal: To Tokyo, 1943-45 (Short Military Stories, Book 9). vi, 62p., illus. [n.p.], Family Murray Trust, 2019. ISBN: 978167870. Following on from his earlier work this covers her service in the Indian and Pacific Oceans in the latter part of the war. |
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| 4985 | COLLINS, Paul W. The Newfyjohn Solution: St. John’s, Newfoundland as a Case Study of Second World War Allied Naval Base Development During the Battle of the Atlantic. 222p., bibliog., illus., index. Calgary, Alberta: WriteAdvice, 2014. ISBN: 9780987891860. A detailed study in the form of a narrative history showing how St John’s developed from a small and poorly defended port in 1939 to the RCN’s main Atlantic escort base named HMCS Avalon. |
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| 4986 | PARR, Claude. A Seemingly Ordinary Man. 160p. Cardiff: Candy Jar Books, 2016. ISBN: 9780993519253. An autobiography. Aged seventeen he joined the Merchant Navy in 1939. He was sunk on Laconia in September 1942 but survived and was captured and imprisoned by the Vichy French. A good account of a far from ordinary life. |
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| 4987 | BROWN, Kevin. Fittest of the Fit: Health and Morale in the Royal Navy, 1939-1945. xi, 276p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Seaforth, 2019. ISBN: 9781526734273. This very good history of the Medical Branch is focussed on public and occupational health issues rather than the treatment of casualties. Ships, and especially submarines, were unhealthy spaces and major concerns were then the treatment of illnesses as varied as tuberculosis, mental health and venereal disease. A fascinating study. |
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| 4988 | EDWARDS, Bernard. Churchill’s Thin Grey Line: British Merchant Ships at War 1939-1945. 235p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Maritime, 2017. ISBN: 9781526711663. Uses the same structure as his other books on the same topic. Individual case studies give a good picture of the experience of merchant seamen at war, but this is at the price of giving a fragmented picture of the merchant navy at large. |
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| 4989 | ROGERS, H. C. B. Troopships and Their History. 223p., illus., index. London: Seeley Service, 1963. Not intended as an exhaustive study, this is an enjoyable account of some three hundred years of trooping, with a twenty-two page section on WW2. |
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| 4990 | BURRELL, Henry. The Loss of the First Voyager (Naval Historical Society of Australia. ACT Chapter, Publication 15). [13p], illus. Canberra, ACT: Naval Historical Society ACT Chapter, [1983]. ISBN: 0909153191. Vice-Admiral Burrell gives a detailed account of the grounding and scuttling and the subsequent Board of Inquiry. In essence this reprints an article from the Journal of the Australian Naval Institute. |
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| 4991 | ARMSTRONG, Craig. Aberdeen at War 1939-45. 176p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2020. ISBN: 9781473899162. Aberdeen suffered more air raids than any city bar London. Its shipyards and fishing fleet contributed to the war effort, while Coastal Command and the RAF launched many attacks from the surrounding area. |
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| 4992 | LEWIS, Tom. Honour Denied: Teddy Sheean, A Tasmanian Hero.and other Brave Warriors of the Royal Australian Navy. 317p., bibliog., illus., index. Kent Town, S.A.: Avonmore, 2016. ISBN: 9780987151971. No member of the Royal Australian Navy has ever been awarded a Victoria Cross. Of the 100 so far given to Australians, 96 are to the Army and four to the Royal Australian Air Force. This detailed and passionate account of Sheean’s bravery during the sinking of HMAS Armidale aims to prove the lack of VCs for the RAN is unjust. |
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| 4993 | GREAT BRITAIN. Admiralty. German Capital Ships and Raiders in World War II. 2 vols., bibliog., illus., index. London: Frank Cass, 2002. A compilation of battle reports prepared by the Admiralty in the 1940’s for internal use. Reprinted with an introduction by Eric Grove, these volumes include Battle Summaries 5, 11, 13, 24, 26, 27, 29., q.v. ISBN: 0714652083 (Vol.1); 0714652830 (Vol. 2). They cover the Graf Spee and Bismarck actions, attacks on the Tirpitz, the sinking of the Scharnhorst and actions against armed merchant raiders. |
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| 4994 | GARZKE, William H., DULIN, Robert O. & JURENS, William. Battleship Bismarck: a Design and Operational History. 610p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Seaforth; Annapolis, NIP, 2019. ISBN: 9781526759740. Drawing on survivors' accounts and the authors' decades of experience in naval architecture, this offers a forensic analysis and engineering study of the design, operational career, and loss of the famous battleship. |
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| 4995 | IVESON, Tony & MILTON, Brian. The Lancaster and the Tirpitz 256p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Andre Deutsch, 2014. ISBN: 9780233004303 Written by a former Squadron Leader of the 617 'Dam Busters' Squadron, who took part in the Lancaster-bomber raid that finally sank the Tirpitz in November 1944, this was published to commemorate the raid's 70th anniversary. Full of first-hand memories that make this a very vivid account of the action. |
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