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| 482 | LANGMAID, Rowland. The Med: The Royal Navy in the Mediterranean 1939-1945. 130p., illus. London: Batchworth, 1948.
The author was Official Admiralty Artist to the Mediterranean Fleet and many of his pictures are reproduced in a personal review of the naval war in this theatre. |
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| 483 | MACINTYRE, Donald. The Battle for the Mediterranean. 216p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Batsford, 1964; New York: Norton, 1965.
A good general history. |
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| 484 | MACMILLAN, Harold. The Blast of War 1939-1945. xvi, 765p., illus., index. London: Macmillan; New York: Harper, 1967. ISBN: 0333003586.
The second volume of the memoirs of a politician who later became Prime Minister. He was involved in the higher direction of the war and especially with events in the Mediterranean in 1943-45. |
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| 485 | MAUGHAN, Barton. Tobruk and El Alamein (Australia in the War of 1939-1945: Series 1, Army, volt III). xx, 854p., illus., index. Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1966.
Gives details of the navy’s role in the support of Tobruk, both on the "Spud Run" and the relief of the Australian Garrison. |
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| 486 | O'HARA, Vincent P. Struggle for the Middle Sea: The Great Navies at War in the Mediterranean Theater, 1940-1945. xviii, 324p., bibliog., illus., index. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2009. ISBN: 1591146488.
A fresh account which focuses on surface actions and challenges traditional myths. |
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| 487 | PLAYFAIR, I. S. O. The Mediterranean and Middle East (History of the Second World War. UK Military Series). 6 vols. in 8. London: HMSO, 1954-88.
Another excellent full official history, although this section only slowly moved to completion. Later volumes were the work of Sir William G. F. Jackson and T. P. Gleave. |
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| 488 | POPE, Dudley. Flag 4: The Battle of Coastal Forces in the Mediterranean. xv, 300, [4]p., illus., index. London: Kimber, 1954.
A good operational history. |
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| 489 | PORCH, Douglas. Hitler's Mediterranean Gamble: The North African and the Mediterranean Campaigns in World War II. xiv, 799p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004. ISBN: 0297846329. Argues that The Mediterranean was the key theatre of the war and central to the defeat of Hitler. A comprehensive account. |
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| 490 | STEAD, Gordon W. A Leaf Upon the Sea: A Small Ship in the Mediterranean, 1941-1943. xiv, 185p., bibliog., illus., index. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1988. ISBN: 0774802995.
The memoirs of a Canadian RCNVR officer who served with the 3rd Flotilla of Motor Launches, based on Malta. An engaging tale. |
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| 491 | STITT, George. Under Cunningham’s Command 1940-1943. 269p., illus. London: Allen & Unwin, 1944.
A one-sided review of the naval war in the Mediterranean, concentrating on the major operations but noting many smaller actions. The account of events after mid-1941 is extremely perfunctory. |
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| 492 | STRABOLGI, [J. M. K.], Lord. The Conquest of Italy. 36p., illus. London: Hutchinson, 1944.
From Torch, the November 1942 Allied invasion of North Africa, to the end of 1943 in the Mediterranean and Aegean. A critical general account. |
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| 493 | TOMBLIN, Barbara Brooks. With Utmost Spirit: Allied Naval Operations in the Mediterranean, 1942-1945. xiv, 578p., bibliog., illus., index. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. ISBN: 0813123380.
An excellent reappraisal, illuminated with personal accounts, which focuses on the planning and execution of the five major assault landings from TORCH to DRAGOON. |
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| 494 | WEICHOLD, Eberhard. Axis Naval Policy and Operations in the
Mediterranean, 1939 to May 1943. iv, 136, [30]p., illus. Washington: Navy Dept., 1951. The US Navy commissioned this work from Admiral Weichold, the senior German naval officer in the Mediterranean. Based on German official records. |
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| 495 | WHIPPLE, A. B. C. The Mediterranean (World War II, vol. 27). 208p., bibliog., illus., index. Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life, 1981. ISBN: 0809433834.
Essentially a series of photo essays on the Mediterranean sea war 1940-43, with a linking narrative. |
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| 496 | WINSER, John de S. British Invasion Fleets: The Mediterranean and Beyond 1942-1945. 152p., illus., index. Gravesend: World Ship Society, 2002. ISBN: 0954331001. Another of the author’s excellent reference works. It describes the ships both naval and merchant that took part in the invasion of North Africa in November 1942. However, it does not only cover 'Operation Torch' it also describes Diego Suarez, Majunga, and Tamatave in Madagascar in 1942 ; Sicily, Salerno and Anzio in 1943 ; South of France 1944 ; and Rangoon and Malaya 1945. Part one provides a brief description of each of these invasions. Part two provides details of all the ships involved. Profusely illustrated with photographs and maps, |
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| 497 | GREAT BRITAIN. Ministry of Information. East of Malta, West of Suez: The Admiralty Account of the Naval War in the Eastern Mediterranean, September 1939 to March 1941. 63p., illus. London: HMSO, 1943; Boston: Little Brown, 1944. An official account of the great days of the sea war against Italy, most notably the attack on Taranto and the Battle of Matapan. The US edition is credited to Bartimeus. The US edition is credited to Bartimeus. A new edition was published in 2001 by Uncovered Editions: The War Facsimiles (ISBN: 0117025380). |
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| 498 | HURREN, B. J. Eastern Med: A Personal Narrative. 160p. London: Muller, 1943.
A personal view of the war in the Mediterranean in 1941 by a member of the Fleet Air Arm. |
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| 499 | JOHNSTON, George H. Grey Gladiator: HMAS Sydney with the British Mediterranean Fleet. xvi, 183p., illus. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1941.
Really the story of the naval war in the Mediterranean from June 1940 until January 1941, as seen by and from Sydney. Published in the UK by Gollancz as Lioness of the Seas and in the US in 1942 by Houghton Mifflin as Action at Sea: The Saga of the Sydney. Reprinted in Australia by Pacific Books in 1971. |
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| 500 | McGUIRE, Paul, & McGUIRE, Frances. The Price of Admiralty. xiv, 328p., illus., index. Melbourne: OUP, 1944.
The war of the Australian sloop Parramatta and of her captain, Commander J. H. Walker, much of it poignantly told through letters to his wife. The ship’s career lasted little over a year, full of unremitting and unglamorous work in the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, before she was sunk off Bardia. |
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| 501 | PACK, S. W. C. The Battle of Sirte (Sea Battles in Close Up, 15). 144p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Ian Allan; Annapolis: NIP, 1975. ISBN: 0711005966.
A description of both battles of Sirte, but mainly the second, where Vian skilfully drove off the stronger Italian Fleet. |
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