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| 622 | WILLIAMSON, David G. The Siege of Malta (Campaign Chronicles). [xiv], 161p., bibliog.., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2007. ISBN: 1844154777.
A straightforward chronological account of the events of the siege. |
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| 623 | WOODMAN. Richard. Malta Convoys 1940-1943. xx, [8], 532p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Murray, 2000. ISBN: 0719557534.
An excellent account by a historian of growing stature. A detailed operational account. |
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| 624 | WRAGG, David. Malta: The Last Great Siege. The George Cross Island's battle for Survival 1940-43. xii, 244p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley, Leo Cooper, 2003. ISBN: 0850529905.
A rather pedestrian retelling of the story enlivened by some well chosen reminiscences from the oral history archives of the Imperial War Museum. |
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| 625 | BENYON-TINKER, W. E. Dust upon the Sea. 216p., illus. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1947.
A participant's account of the exploits of the Levant Schooner Flotilla in the Aegean from mid-summer 1943 to October 1944. |
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| 626 | CAPELL, Richard. Simiomata: A Greek Note Book 1944-1945. 224p., illus., index. London: Macdonald, [1946].
A war correspondent’s notes of the liberation of Greece and the islands and the civil war of that winter. As usual, the RN was involved. |
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| 627 | ELLIOTT, Murray. Vasili the Lion of Crete. 221p., illus., index. London: Century Hutchinson, 1987. ISBN: 9602263482.
Dudley Perkins was a New Zealander captured in Crete. He escaped and was evacuated by submarine but returned as Kapetan Vasili of the SOE to work with the Greek resistance in Crete. RN and RHN support forms a backdrop to his daring exploits. A second edition was published in 1992. |
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| 628 | GREAT BRITAIN. Ministry of Defence. Review of the Results of Investigations Carried out by the Ministry of Defence in 1986 into the Fate of British Servicemen Captured in Greece and the Greek Islands between October 1943 and October 1944 and the Involvement, if any, of the Then Lieutenant Waldheim. iii, 117p., map, 8 microfiche annexes. London: HMSO, 1989.
When standing as President of Austria in 1986, Waldheim was accused of war crimes. This is a review of British evidence on the cases of some SBS and naval personnel. The case is found not proven. |
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| 629 | GUARD, J. S. Improvise and Dare: War in the Aegean 1943–1945. xxiii, 257p., bibliog., illus., index. Lewes: Book Guild, 1997. ISBN: 1857761707. An attempt at a full history of this little war, by a former Naval Attaché at Ankara. |
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| 630 | HOLLAND, Jeffrey. The Aegean Mission: Allied Operations in the Dodecanese 1943. xx, 194p., illus. New York: Greenwood, 1988. ISBN: 0313262837. An interesting background account with little naval material. Good on the battles for Kos and Leros. |
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| 631 | HORLOCK, Kenneth. Our Lady of the Pirates. iv, 64p., illus. Williton: [author], 1991.
The adventures of MTB 651 in the Adriatic. |
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| 632 | JOHNSON, Edward B. W. Island Prize: Leros, 1943. 96p., illus. [Banbury]: Kemble, 1992. ISBN: 0906835305.
A biographical account by a member of the Royal Irish Fusiliers. |
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| 633 | KOBURGER, Charles W. Naval Warfare in the Eastern Mediterranean. xv, 171p., bibliog., illus., index. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1993. ISBN: 0275944654.
A short general account, which tries to give a strategic overview. |
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| 634 | KOBURGER, Charles W. Rum and Raki: War in the Eastern Adriatic 1939-1945. War in a Narrow Sea. 71p., illus. Beech Hill: [author], 2003.
An attempt to distil all available information on the conflict as a perfect example of the lessons to be learned about littoral warfare. |
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| 635 | LINCOLN, John. Achilles and the Tortoise: An Eastern Aegean Exploit. [iv], 256p. London: Heinemann, 1958.
Caique borne Army special operations at the end of the war and in the civil war which followed. |
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| 636 | LIND, Lew. Battle of the Wine Dark Sea: The Aegean Campaign 1940-45. 190p., bibliog., illus., index. Kenthurst: Kangaroo, 1994. ISBN: 0864175620.
Lind served with SOE at the time. Comprehensive on facts but with little real analysis. |
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| 637 | McCONVILLE, Michael. A Small War in the Balkans: British Military Involvement in Wartime Yugoslavia 1941-1945. xv, 336p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Macmillan, 1986. ISBN: 0333386752.
The author was a Royal Marine subaltern during the campaign. He writes knowledgably and elegantly about the campaign in the islands in particular. |
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| 638 | MACLEAN, Fitzroy. Eastern Approaches. 543p., illus., index. London: Cape; Boston: Little Brown, 1949.
The autobiography of a British adventurer in the John Buchan mould. During the war he was heavily involved in secret operations and derring-do in the Balkans and Middle East, notably with Tito in Yugoslavia. Of background value. US title: Escape to Adventure. |
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| 639 | MAULE, Henry. Scobie: Hero of Greece. The British Campaign 1944-5. xiv, 285p. London: Barker, 1975. ISBN: 0213165546.
An account of a largely unremembered campaign in which the British army fought Greek communist guerrillas. Naval support is sparsely mentioned. |
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| 640 | PARISH, Michael Woodbine. Aegean Adventures 1940-1943 and the End of Churchill's Dream. 400p., illus., index. Lewes: Book Guild, 1993. ISBN: 0863327885.
The autobiography of an army officer of the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry. After the fall of Crete - which is fully described - he became involved in the cloak and dagger war in the Aegean and captured Samos and Leros almost single-handedly. He was captured and badly wounded and spent some time in German prison camps. Something of a polemic. |
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| 641 | ROGERS, Anthony. Churchill's Folly: Leros and the Aegean, the Last Great British Defeat of World War Two. 288p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Cassell, 2003. ISBN: 0304361518.
A balanced account of the attempt to rush troops into the vacuum created by the Italian surrender. Uses German and Italian as well as British sources and although mainly an army history gives a judicious account of RN involvement. |
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