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| 642 | SELIGMAN, Adrian. No Stars to Guide. 332p., illus. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1947.
Skulduggery in the Aegean in late 1941 as the author helped smuggle Russian merchantmen through the Axis blockade. He himself returned on the m.v. Olinda and that trip is fully described. Reprinted by Sutton in 1997. |
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| 643 | SELIGMAN, Adrian. War in the Islands: Undercover Operations in the Aegean 1942-4 Recalled by Men of the Levant Schooner Flotilla, The Greek Sacred Company and Aegean Raiding Forces. xvi, 239p., illus. Stroud: Sutton, 1996. ISBN: 0750914394.
Memories and anecdotes based largely on taped interviews. Events are recalled after 50 years which by turns amuse and terrify. |
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| 644 | SMITH, Peter C., & WALKER, Edwin. War in the Aegean. 304p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Kimber, 1974. ISBN: 0718304225.
The Dodecanese Campaign of 1943. A bitter little war of regular and irregular forces with substantial naval involvement. |
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| 645 | STOKOE, E. G. Lower the Ramps: Experiences with the 43rd Royal Marine Commando in Yugoslavia. 136p., illus. Maidstone: Mann, 1974. ISBN: 0704100487.
For most of 1944 the 40th and 43rd Royal Marine Commandos harried the German held Dalmatian Islands and later took part in the Montenegrin Campaign. The author served throughout this period until wounded. |
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| 646 | BARTIMEUS. The Turn of the Road: Being the Story of . . . the Royal Navy and Merchant Navy in the Landings in Algeria and French Morocco. 122p., illus. London: Chatto & Windus, 1946.
Mainly concerned with the Torch landings and the events of the rest of 1942, but does stray a little beyond this. Written in 1943 and not amended with hindsight. |
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| 647 | BREUER, William B. Operation Torch: The Allied Gamble to Invade North Africa. xv, 272p., bibliog., illus., index. New York: St. Martin's, 1985. ISBN: 031258685X.
Focuses on the experience of the US Forces. |
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| 648 | FUNK, Arthur Layton. The Politics of Torch: The Allied Landings and the Algiers Putsch, 1942. viii, 322p., bibliog., illus., index. Lawrence: Kansas UP, 1974. ISBN: 0700601236.
A political, not military, study, with a particular emphasis on the French viewpoint. |
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| 649 | GELB, Norman. Desperate Venture: The Story of Operation Torch, the Allied Invasion of North Africa. 366p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Hodder; New York: Morrow, 1992. ISBN: 0688098835.
A wide-ranging American popular account of the operation. |
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| 650 | HOWE, George F. Northwest Africa: Seizing the Initiative in the West (United States Army in World War II. The Mediterranean Theater of Operations). xxiii, 748p., illus., index. Washington: Department of the Army, 1957.
The US Army view of TORCH and the support given by the RN. |
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| 651 | JONES, Vincent. Operation Torch: Anglo-American Invasion of North Africa (Pan/Ballantine Illustrated History of World War II. Campaign Books). 159p., illus. New York: Ballantine, 1972; London: Pan/Ballantine, 1973. ISBN: 0345097785.
Clearly told, with some naval information. |
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| 652 | PACK, S. W. C. Invasion North Africa, 1942. 112p., illus. London: Ian Allan; New York: Scribner, 1978. ISBN: 0711008671.
A full account of the planning and execution of the operation. |
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| 653 | PARRIS, John A. Springboard to Berlin. [vi], 401p., illus., index. New York: Crowell, 1943.
Four war correspondents report on the conquest of North Africa, from Torch onward, including the invasion of Sicily. One was on board Walney for the coup de main which failed. |
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| 654 | SAINSBURY, K. The North African Landings, 1942: A Strategic Decision (Politics and Strategy of the Second World War). 215p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Davis-Poynter, 1976; Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1979. ISBN: 0706701860.
Another in this series designed to show the reasons for decisions of policy in the running of the war. |
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| 655 | The Battle of the Coral Sea 1942: Conference Proceedings, 7-10 May 1992. 209p., map. Sydney: Australian National Maritime Museum, 1992. ISBN: 0642182655.
A fiftieth-anniversary review of this important turning point. |
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| 656 | First Blows: Britain's Fight against Japan. 32p., illus. New York: British Information Services, 1945.
An outline of Britain’s part thus far in the war against Japan and the promise of more blows to come. |
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| 657 | A Proud Page in Our History. 18p., illus. Sydney: Department of Information, 1944.
The loss of Perth and Yarra and the Battle of the Java Sea. |
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| 658 | The Second World War in the Pacific: Plans and Reality (National Maritime Museum Monograph, No. 9). [2], 30p. London: National Maritime Museum, 1974.
Proceedings of a conference with papers from major experts. |
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| 659 | AUSTRALIA. Commission of Inquiry under the National Security (Inquiries) Regulations. Commission of inquiry concerning the circumstances connected with the attack made by Japanese aircraft at Darwin on 19th February, 1942: reports by Commissioner (Mr Justice Lowe), together with observations thereon by the Departments of the Navy, Army, Air and Interior: first report. 43p. Canberra : Govt. Printer, 1945.
The official account of the surprise attack |
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| 660 | BANHAM, Tony. Not the Slightest Chance: The Defence of Hong Kong, 1941. xx, 431p., bibliog., illus., index. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0774810459.
A wonderfully detailed chronological account which describes the fate of almost every individual in the colony. |
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| 661 | BIRCH, Alan & COLE, Martin. Captive Christmas: The Battle of Hong Kong - December 1941. [vi], 179p., bibliog., illus. Hong Kong: Heinemann Asia, 1979. ISBN: 0686981588.
Originally broadcast by Radio Hong Kong, this is essentially a day by day oral history of December 1941 as seen from the colony. With little of naval interest it is nonetheless a very atmospheric account of the end of empire. |
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