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| 5037 | WILLIAMSON, Gordon. U-Boats at War in 100 Objects, 1939-45. 192p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Frontline, 2020. ISBN: 9781526759023. Follows a fashionable style in presenting. one hundred images of everything from uniforms to individuals and the U-boats themselves. |
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| 5038 | STEPHENSON, Charles. The Eastern Fleet and the Indian Ocean 1942-1944: The Fleet That Had To Hide. Ix, 320p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2020. ISBN: 9781526783615. A well written and absorbing account of the role played by this important but neglected force. |
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| 5039 | SHOWELL, Jak P. Mallman. Hitler’s Attack U-Boats: The Kriegsmarine’s WWII Submarine Strike Force. 232p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Frontline, 2020. ISBN: 9781526771018. Another excellent work from this prolific author. Roughly half text and half illustrations explore how the boats were built and operated. |
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| 5040 | BARNHAM, Denis. Malta Spitfire Pilot: Ten Weeks of Terror, April-June 1942. 208p., illus. London: Grub Street, 2013. ISBN:9781909166035. He arrived in Malta as a fresh and inexperienced pilot and this journal records his first 200 operational hours in these bitterly fought months. First published in 1956 as One Man’s Window, q.v. Reprinted by Frontline in 2020, ISBN: 9781526766748. |
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| 5041 | BARNHAM, Denis. One Man’s Window: An Illustrated Account of Ten Weeks of War, Malta April 13th to June 21st, 1942. 201p., illus. London: Kimber, 1956. He arrived in Malta as a fresh and inexperienced pilot and spent some two hundred operational hours at the height of the siege. A journal of his time on the island. |
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| 5042 | URQUHART, Alistair. The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East. [v], 312p., illus., index. London: Little, Brown, 2010. ISBN: 9781408702116. A somewhat bitter autobiography. He joined the Gordon Highlanders and went to Singapore on the troopship ss Andes. Captured at the fall of Singapore he worked as a POW on the Burma railroad then was shipped to Japan on one of the “Hellships” in late 1944. The Kachidoki Maru was sunk by an American submarine and he was only rescued after several days on a raft. He was then sent to Nagasaki where he saw out the war. As with many others he was denied financial support post-war because he could not produce documentation about his imprisonment! |
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| 5043 | MEARNS, David L. The Search for the Sydney. [viii], 264p., bibliog., illus., index. Sydney, NSW: HarperCollins, 2009. ISBN: 9780732288891. A profusely illustrated coffee table style book which offers an excellent account of how the wreck of the Sydney was finally discovered and the mystery of her sinking solved after almost seventy years. |
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| 5044 | A Bibliography of Japanese Books on the Burma Campaign: War in Burma 1942-1945. xv, 112p. Tokyo: All Burma Veterans Association of Japan, 2000. A comprehensive guide covering everything from official histories to personal accounts. Although most of the text is in Japanese, titles and many details are also given in English. There is some peripheral material on naval matters. |
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| 5045 | BERTKE, Donald A., KINDELL, Don & SMITH, Gordon. World War II Sea War, Volume 14: Guam, Tinian, Southern France, Peleliu and Morotai. 546p. Dayton, OH: Bertke Publications, 2019. ISBN: 9781937470272. Covers the third quarter of 1944. Includes the continuing naval battle in the English Channel; the landing in southern France by US and French troops; the liberation of French ports along the Atlantic and Mediterranean; the liberation of Guam by US Army and Marine troops; capture of Tinian Island by US marines; landing on Morotai Island by US troops; capture of Peleliu, Angaur Island and Ulithi Atoll by US forces; the landing at Noemfoor, New Guinea, by US and Australian troops; operations of USN submarines in the Pacific Ocean |
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| 5046 | BERTKE, Donald A., KINDELL, Don & SMITH, Gordon. World War II Sea War, Volume 15: Return to the Philippines. 498p. Dayton, OH: Bertke Publications, 2020. ISBN: 9781937470296. Covers the fourth quarter of 1944. In Europe, the RAF attacked the Tirpitz in Norway, but most naval activity was between the US and Imperial Japanese Navies for the Philippines. |
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| 5047 | BERTKE, Donald A., KINDELL, Don & SMITH, Gordon. World War II Sea War, Volume 16: Lingayen Gulf, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and the Attack of the Kamikaze. 620p. Dayton, OH: Bertke Publications, 2020. ISBN: 9781937470319. Covers the first quarter of 1945, including the Allies’ final struggles against Nazi Germany and the last major battles against Japan. |
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| 5048 | ROBERTS, John. Battlecruiser Repulse: Detailed in the Original Builder’s Plans. 160p., bibliog., illus. Barnsley: Seaforth, 2019. ISBN: 9781526757289. Reproduces two complete sets of plans from 1916 and 1936. |
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| 5049 | FAULKNER, Marcus & PATALANO, Alessio. The Sea and the Second World War: Maritime Aspects of a Global Conflict (New Perspectives on the Second World War). 317p., bibliog., index. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 2019. ISBN: 9781949668049. A series of ten essays on neglected topics such as the sometimes fraught relationships between the countries of the Empire, Australian amphibious landings and German Schnellboote operations. A good work. |
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| 5050 | McGILVRAY, Evan. Poland & The Second World War 1938-1948. 344p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2019. ISBN: 9781473834101. A comprehensive account of the war in Poland, the wartime resistance and the exploits of the exiled forces in all three armed services. Some naval material. |
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| 5051 | HARDER, Thomas Special Forces Hero: Anders Lassen VC MC*. 400p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Seaforth, 2021. ISBN: 9781526787514. A fresh account of this much decorated legendary figure. |
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| 5052 | PELZ, Stephen E., Race to Pearl Harbor: The Failure of the Second London Naval Conference and the Onset of World War II (Harvard Studies in American-East Asian Relations, 5). vii, 268p., bibliog., illus., index. Cambridge, MA; Harvard University Press, 1974. ISBN: 0674745752. A full coverage of the Anglo-Japanese-American triangle and the inter-war attempts at arms control. Gives an excellent account of how and why they failed. Reprinted in 2014, ISBN: 0674863518. |
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| 5053 | MCKAY, Sinclair. The Secret Listeners: How the Y Service Intercepted the German Codes for Bletchley Park. 354p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Aurum, 2012. ISBN: 9781845137632. A slightly hagiographic breezy account of the young operators who gathered the signals used by Bletchley Park. |
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| 5054 | KELLY, Terence. Living with Japanese. 228p., illus. Folkestone, Kellan Press, 1997. ISBN: 0953019306. The personal memoir of a RAF pilot captured in Java, which tells the story of his imprisonment as a POW, his transport to Japan and his work in the Hitachi shipyard in Innoshima. Republished in 2006 by Pen & Sword Military as By Hellship to Hiroshima. ISBN: 1844154033. |
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| 5055 | KELLY, Terence. By Hellship to Hiroshima x, 244p., illus., index. Barnsley, Pen & Sword, 2006. ISBN: 1844154033. The personal memoir of a RAF pilot captured in Java, which tells the story of his imprisonment as a POW, his transport to Japan and his work in the Hitachi shipyard in Innoshima. Published originally in 1997 as Living with Japanese, q.v.
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| 5056 | LETT, Brian. Ian Fleming and SOE's Operation Postmaster: The Untold Top Secret Story. x, 255p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2012. ISBN: 9781781590003. The story of a daring but controversial raid by the Small Scale Raiding Force which sailed a Q ship to West Africa in January 1942 and stole three enemy ships from a neutral Spanish port on the island of Fernando Po in the Gulf of Guinea. |
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