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| 5097 | STOREY, Neil R. Britain’s Coast at War: Invasion Threat, Coastal Forces, Bombardment & Training for D-Day. 288p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2021. ISBN: 9781399001229. A good account of the significant role played by the military and civilian populations of the coastal towns and cities throughout the war. |
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| 5098 | JACKSON, Robert. The Bismarck. 96p., illus., index. Staplehurst: Spellmount, 2002. ISBN: 1862271739. A detailed account of her development and construction, comparisons with other German capital ships and chapters on her brief career. Finally, there is an account of the building and career of the Tirpitz. Profusely illustrated, this is a slim volume but crammed with facts. |
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| 5099 | LAMB, Christian. Beyond the Sea: A Wren at War. 304p., illus., index. London: Mardle Books, 2021. ISBN: 9781914451027. A largely autobiographical work, much of it retelling the story of her war years, as in her earlier book I Only Joined for the Hat, q.v. This volume also gives a full account of her pre-war and post-war life. |
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| 5100 | SMITH, Mark Scott. The Osprey and the Sea Wolf: The Battle of the Atlantic 1942. [n.p.], Rolling Wave Books, 2018. ISBN: 9780692133429. |
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| 5101 | BELL, Archie. Stranraer in World War Two. 17p.,[13]p. of plates, bibliog, illus. Stranraer : Stranraer and District Local History Trust, c1999. ISBN 0953577600. A good account of the involvement of the town and the port of Cairnryan. There were five R.A.F. bases nearby, as well as the military port. A mix of mainly physical description with some chronology. A revised and expanded second edition was published by the Society in 2005 (ISBN 095429663X) and a third edition in 2017 (ISBN: 9781906737139). |
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| 5102 | SIMMONS, Mark. Ian Fleming and Operation Golden Eye: Spies, Scoundrels and Envoys Keeping Spain Out of World War. xvi, 192p., bibliog., illus., index. Oxford: Casemate, 2018. ISBN: 9781612006857. The story of Ian Fleming and a whole host of characters who were active in the Iberian Peninsula in the early years of the war as Franco dithered between maintaining neutrality and joining the Axis. Also covers the various plans prepared for any attempt to capture Gibraltar. A fascinating tale spoiled somewhat by poor proofreading.
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| 5103 | MOELLER, Kevin M. The Italian Submarine Force in the Battle of the Atlantic: Left in the Dark. 89p., bibliog. [Scotts Valley, CA; Createspace, 2015]. ISBN: 9781519669346. Published anonymously for the United States Army Command and General Staff College, this is a Master’s thesis written by Moeller. It gives a good dry account of the over sixty Atlantic patrols carried out by Italian submarines which sank almost half a million tons of shipping in the mid and south Atlantic. |
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| 5104 | SIMPSON, Michael. Anglo-American-Canadian Naval Relations, 1943-1945 (Publications of the Navy Records Society, Volume 168). xxvii, 491p., bibliog., frontis., index. London: Routledge for the Navy Records Society, 2021. ISBN: 9781032009353. A comprehensive set of documents with a series of perceptive background commentaries. |
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| 5105 | BOROWIAK, Mariusz & WYTYKOWSKI, Peter. U-Boot’s Escape to South America: Secret of the Gray Wolves. 168p., bibliog., illus. Lublin: Kagero, 2019. ISBN: 9788366148239. A revisionist history which examines the many myths surrounding German submarines transporting goods, treasure and senior Nazis to Argentina at the end of the war. Based on numerous unpublished documents and focused on the sagas of U-530 and U-977, this is a useful antidote to the tales of conspiracy theorists. Very poorly edited which makes some of the text difficult to follow. |
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| 5106 | CARNE, W.P. The Making of a Royal Naval Officer. 350p., illus., index. London: Uniform, 2021. ISBN: 9781913491598. The story of a distinguished career, compiled by his grandson, from letters, diaries, memoirs and official documents, many of which are reproduced. Born in 1898, he joined the Navy in 1914 and served for over fifty years. He had an active First World War including the battle of Jutland and rose steadily in rank. By 1940 he was Fleet Torpedo Officer of the Mediterranean Fleet and it is on his service in the Mediterranean that the book largely then focusses. There are full accounts of the Battle of Calabria, the bombardment of Bardia, the battle of Matapan and the attack on Taranto and the capture of Tobruk. In May 1941 he was appointed Captain of the cruiser Coventry. Within ten days he saw dramatic action in the evacuation of Crete, including the rescue of many of the crew from Calcutta. The rest of his career is then briefly summarised. He left Coventry a few months later, served on the Admiralty Delegation in Washington for a year, then in mid-1943 took command of the escort carrier Striker serving in the Arctic then moving on to the Pacific. |
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| 5107 | DAVID, Saul. SBS Silent Warriors. xxxviii, 490p., bibliog., illus., index. London: William Collins, 2021. ISBN: 9780008394523. An authorised history of the Service covering all of their wartime exploits from the English Channel to the Far East. An excellent account. |
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| 5108 | WARNER, Guy. Atlantic Linchpin: The Azores in Two World Wars. 160p., bibliog., illus., index. Annapolis: USNIP: Barnsley: Seaforth, 2021. ISBN: 9781399010900. The role of the Azores in the Battle of the Atlantic has been largely neglected and this well written work attempts to fill the gap. |
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| 5109 | MACDOUGALL, Ian. Voices of Scotswomen in Peace and War: Spoken Recollections of Home Life, Employment and 1939-45 War Service. ix,435p., bibliog., illus., index. Edinburgh: John Donald2019. ISBN: 9781910900321. Transcribed recorded oral histories from some nineteen women who served in the ATS, WAAF, the Timber Corp and five in the WRNS. Each account is 5-10 pages long and is in Scots dialect so can be difficult to read. Covers a fascinating variety of experiences. |
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| 5110 | BISHOP, Patrick. Operation Jubilee. Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice. xi,[3], 386p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Viking, 2021. ISBN: 9780241389669. A well researched and gripping account of the raid, its background and aftermath. |
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| 5111 | HAMMOND, Richard. Strangling the Axis: The Fight for Control of the Mediterranean during the Second World War (Cambridge Military Histories). 290p., bibliog., illus., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781108478212. A well researched and well written account which focuses on the importance of the control of the sea lanes. |
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| 5112 | DODSON, Aidan. Spoils of War: The Fate of Enemy Fleets after the Two World Wars. 328p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Seaforth; Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2020. ISBN: 9781526741981. Covers an area which has been full of unrecorded or wrongly recorded facts. Traces the histories of navies and ships of the defeated powers from the months leading up to the relevant armistices or surrenders through to the final execution of the appropriate post-war settlements. |
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| 5113 | NUDD, Derek. Castaways of the Kriegsmarine: How Shipwrecked German Seamen Helped the Allies Win the Second World War. 259p., bibliog., illus. [n.p.], CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017. ISBN: 9781548371012. Examines the survivors of five vessels of the Kriegsmarine as the British shifted them through the interrogation process after capture. All were sunk in late 1943 and early 1944, a period of intense activity for the naval team at Combined Services Detailed Intelligence Centre (CSDIC). A well written introduction to British intelligence gathering from prisoners. |
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| 5114 | NUDD, Derek. Castaways in Question: A Story of British Naval Interrogators from WW1 to Denazification. xix, 349p., bibliog., index. [n.p.], Cottage Grove Editions, 2020. ISBN 9781838094317. Building on his earlier research this is an entertaining and well written book which uses original sources to great effect and throws fresh light on intelligence gathering. |
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| 5115 | NOLTE, Carl. Destination D-Day: A Voyage on the Jeremiah O’Brien. Welcome Home to San Francisco September 23, 1994. [vi], 57p., illus. San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Chronicle, 1994. The last surviving Liberty ship sailed to England and Normandy to celebrate her part in the the celebrations for the fiftieth anniversary of D-Day. This short pamphlet reprints the newspaper reports made by the author before and during the trip and on the return voyage. |
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| 5116 | GREAT BRITAIN. ADMIRALTY. NAVAL STAFF. TRAINING AND STAFF DUTIES DIVISION. Light Coastal Craft Operating in the North Sea and the English Channel September 1943 (B.R. 834.). 39p., illus. London: Admiralty, 1943. A comparative study and recognition manual for British and German Coastal Forces. |
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