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KAPLAN, Philip. Hitler’s D-Day Defences. 176p., illus. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2017. ISBN: 9781526705402.

 A rather poor account and description of the German defences in Normandy.

• Photographs
• D-Day

JOHNSON, Odakkal. Timeless Wake: The Legacy of the Royal Indian Navy During World War II (MHS Publication 17). xi, 350p., illus., index. Mumbai: Maritime History Society, 2013. ISBN: 9788190810869.

A helpfully up to date and comprehensive account of the world-wide involvement of the RIN in WW2. An excellent addition to the literature.

• Indian Armed Forces

CHASSEAUD, Peter. Mapping the Second World War. 304p., bibliog., illus., index. Glasgow: Collins; London: Imperial War Museum, 2015. ISBN: 9780007950027.

A profusely illustrated history of the war, based on the map collection of the Imperial War Museum. These contemporary maps cover both the war at sea and a variety of landings and assaults as well as the land campaigns.

• Reference Works
• The War at Sea

PARKIN, Simon. A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Secret Game that Won the War. 320p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Hodder, 2019. ISBN: 9781529353037.

Describes the development of tactical gaming of how to deal with U-boat attacks as led by Captain Gilbert Roberts working with a team of Wrens.

• Biography
• The Battle of the Atlantic
• WRNS

WYNN, Stephen. The Lancastria Tragedy, Sinking and Cover-Up: June 1940. 184p., bibliog,, illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Maritime, 2020. ISBN: 9781526706638.

A concise account of the tragedy, based on survivors memories and with a brie3f history of the ship and some background on the post-Dunkirk evacuations from France.

• Shipwrecks & Sinkings
• Troopships

EDWARDS, Bernard. From Hunter to Hunted: The U-Boat War in the Atlantic 1939-1943. 217p., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Maritime, 2020. ISBN: 9781526763594.

An experienced and prolific author provides another account of the battle based on individual case studies of convoys.

• The Atlantic Battle Joined
• Kriegsmarine: U-Boats

HEALISS, Ronald. Arctic Rescue: A Memoir of the Tragic Sinking of HMS Glorious. 147p. Leeds: Sapere, 2020. ISBN: 9781800550070.

A reprint of the 1955 work Adventure Glorious in which one of the survivors, a marine, tells the story of the carrier Glorious’ part in the Norwegian Campaign, of her sinking, and his survival. The reprint adds a two page biography of the author.

• The Norwegian Campaign
• Aircraft Carriers
• Shipwrecks & Sinkings

MATSON, Dennis. The Lancastria: Looking Back. A Survivor’s Story. [vi], 34p., illus. [n.p., 2019]. ISBN: 9781793136398.

He was a Private in the R.A.S.C. and this describes his experience of the sinking and later wartime career.

• Biography
• Lancastria
• The Fall of France
• Shipwrecks & Sinkings

CLARK, Anthony. Uncle George and RMS Lancastria. 46p., illus. [n.p., author,2020]. ISBN: 9781542973434.

George Clark was a member of the Pioneer Corps who died on Lancastria. This rather bitter memoir records a nephews attempt to reconstruct what happened to an uncle he never met some seventy years after the event.

• Biography
• Lancastria
• The Fall of France
• Shipwrecks & Sinkings

CROSSLEY, Jim. Churchill’s Admiral In Two World Wars: Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes of Zeebrugge and Dover GCB KCVO CMG DSO. xii, 200p., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Maritime, 2020. ISBN: 9781526748393.

An engaging biography of a charismatic fighting admiral who saw action from anti-slavery patrols at the end of the nineteenth century to being present at the Leyte landings after his retirement. Has a brief account of his service in WW2, notably in Combined Operations.

• Biography
• Royal Navy Autobiographies & Biographies
• The Commandos

CRABB, Brian James. The Forgotten Tragedy: The Story of the Sinking of HMT Lancastria. Xii, 281pp, bibliog., illus., index. Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2002. ISBN: 1900289504.

A well researched and authoritative account of the tragic sinking.

• Lancastria
• The Fall of France
• Shipwrecks & Sinkings

HOBBS, David. Taranto and Naval Air Warfare in the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. 456p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Seaforth, 2020. ISBN: 9781526793836.

A comprehensive account of the Mediterranean sea war as seen from a Fleet Air Arm perspective. An excellent account from this expert in the subject.

• The Battle for the Mediterranean
• The War against the Italians
• The Attack on Taranto
• Fleet Air Arm

JORDAN, John. Warships After London: The End of the Treaty Era in the Five Major Fleets, 1930-1936. 320p., bibliog., illus., index Barnsley: Seaforth, 2020. ISBN: 9781526777492.

A sequel to his earlier work on the Washington Treaty, this considers the impact on design of the quantitative limits on cruisers, destroyers and submarines, imposed by the London Treaty. Again arranged by warship type.

• Preparations for War
• Shipbuilding
• WW2 Ships: General
• General lists of ships

ROBERTS, John. Destroyer Cossack: Detailed in Original Builder’s Plans. 128p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Seaforth, 2020. ISBN: 9781526777065.

Using the original plans as the centrepiece of this book, an acknowledged expert gives a full description of the design and construction and service of the famous destroyer. Profusely illustrated.

• Reference Works
• The Royal Navy
• Destroyers
• Shipbuilding

MARSH, Peter J. Liberty Factory: The Untold Story of Henry Kaiser’s Oregon Shipyards. 256p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Seaforth, 2020. ISBN: 9781526783059.

Kaiser established vast new shipyards and a new model town to house 44,000 workers who built some 600 Liberty and Victory ships, 150 tankers and fifty escort carriers. A fascinating tale of how mass production techniques transformed the speed of production.

• Shipbuilding

ARMSTRONG, Craig. Orkney and Scapa Flow at War 1939-45. 176p., bibliog.’ Illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2020. ISBN: 9781473899209.

These remote islands were central to the role of the Royal Navy. Another excellent volume in this series.

• Ports and Bases - UK

LEWIS, Tom & INGMAN, Peter. Zero Hour in Broome: The Untold Story of the Attacks on Northwest Australia in 1942. 184p., bibliog., illus., index. Kent Town, S.A.: Avonmore Books, 2010. ISBN: 9780957735156.

Examines the actions of senior officials in the second most deadly attack on Australian soil when Zero fighters destroyed 15 flying boats at Broome which were packed with evacuees from Java. Profiles the different aircraft used during the Broome operation and the fate of Broome pearling luggers due to the scorched earth policy.

• The Loss of the Far East
• Ports and Bases - Africa, Asia and Australasia

SKEELS, Fred. Java Rabble: a Story of a Ship, Slavery and Survival. viii, 151p., illus. Carlisle, W.A. : Hesperian Press, 2008. ISBN 9780859054195.

The story of the sinking of HMAS Perth and its aftermath as experienced by one of the survivors.

• Autobiography
• The ABDA Command Area
• Royal Australian Navy: Cruisers

CULL, Brian & GALEA, Frederick. 806 Naval Air Squadron: The FAA’s Top-Scoring Fighter Squadron of the Second World War. 216p., bibliog., illus., index. Stroud: Fonthill Media, 2019. ISBN: 9781781557501.

Formed in early 1940 and equipped with Skuas and Rocs it say service in Norway and at Dunkirk. Re-equipped with Fulmars the squadron then served in the Mediterranean on Illustrious with great success.

• The Norwegian Campaign
• The Battle for the Mediterranean
• The War against the Italians
• Fleet Air Arm

KLUGER, Michael & EVANS, Richard. Roosevelt & Churchill: The Atlantic Charter. 224p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Frontline, 2020. ISBN: 9781526786302.

A full account of the background to and the outcomes of this seminal meeting at Placentia Bay in Newfoundland in August 1941.

• Strategy
• The Admiralty