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| 62 | MAIOLO, Joseph A. The Royal Navy and Nazi Germany, 1933-39: A Study in Appeasement and the Origins of the Second World War. xii, 259p., bibliog., index. London: Macmillan, 1998. ISBN: 0333720075.
Argues that the RN made a complex and sophisticated response to German re-armament. |
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| 63 | MANSON, Janet M. Diplomatic Ramifications of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare 1939-1941 (Contributions in Military Studies, no. 104). xvi, 215p., bibliog., index. New York: Greenwood, 1990. ISBN: 0313268940.
Compares the US and German decisions to adopt unrestricted submarine warfare. |
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| 64 | MITCHELL, Mairin. Atlantic Battle and the Future of Ireland. 72p. London: Muller, 1941.
A view of the Irish question in a geopolitical context, which postulates a sort of NATO-type organisation for the future. Based on the author’s view of current events. |
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| 65 | MODELSKI, George. Seapower in Global Politics, 1494-1993. xiv, 380p., bibliog., index. London: Macmillan; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1988. ISBN: 0295965029.
Aims to bring together the basic data on the strength of the world's major navies and then shed light on its use in global politics. |
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| 66 | MUNCH-PETERSEN, Thomas. The Strategy of Phoney War: Britain, Sweden and the Iron Ore Question 1939-1940. 299p., bibliog., maps. Stockholm: MilitarHistoriska Forlaget, 1981.
A scholarly account of Britain's concerns in Scandinavia, from the start of the war to the evacuation of Norway. The focus on Swedish relations gives a distinctive perspective. |
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| 67 | MURFETT, Malcolm H. Naval Warfare 1919-1945: An Operational History of the Volatile War at Sea. xviii, 629p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Routledge, 2009. ISBN: 0415458048.
A comprehensive history of the war at sea from the end of the Great War to the end of World War Two. Showing the bewildering nature and complexity of the war facing those charged with fighting it around the world, this book ranges far and wide: sweeping across all naval theatres and those powers performing major, as well as minor, roles within them. |
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| 68 | NASH, Peter V. The Development of Mobile Logistic Support in Anglo-American Naval Policy, 1900-1953. xxxiv, 320, [iv]p., bibliog., illus., index. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780813033679.
A major study of a neglected area which has particularly useful material on the Fleet Train supporting the British Pacific Fleet. |
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| 69 | PRATT, F. Sea Power and Today’s War. xiii, 206p. New York: Harrison-Hilton, 1939; London: Methuen, 1940.
Originally written in the summer of 1939 and hastily revised when war began, this is a fascinating view of what the war was expected to bring. With hindsight it is seen to be a mixture of shrewd predictions and almost comic guesses. |
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| 70 | PULESTON, W. D. The Influence of Sea Power in World War II. xiii, 310p., illus., index. New Haven: Yale UP, 1947.
An attempt to update Mahan in the light of the war and to look at the future strategic employment of naval power. |
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| 71 | RICHMOND, Herbert. The Naval Role in Modern Warfare (Oxford Pamphlets on World Affairs, no. 26). 32p. Oxford: Clarendon, 1940.
Admiral Richmond describes the principles of naval strategy. |
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| 72 | RICHMOND, Herbert. War at Sea Today (Oxford Pamphlets on World Affairs, no. 60). 32p. Oxford: OUP, 1942.
The distinguished sailor turned scholar discusses the strategic use of sea power. |
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| 73 | ROSKILL, S. W. The Strategy of Sea Power: Its Development and Application. Based on the Lees Knowles Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge, 1961. 288p., bibliog., index. London: Collins, 1962. ISBN: 0863910602.
About half of this work is devoted to a considered view of WWII, by this leading British naval historian. Reprinted in 1986 by Goodchild with a new introduction and epilogue by Geoffrey Till. |
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| 74 | RUSSELL, Herbert. Sea Warfare Today. 119p. London: Lane, 1940.
A concise description of the various types of warships now employed by the belligerents and of how the war at sea will be conducted. |
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| 75 | SCHUBERT, Paul. Sea Power in Conflict. vi, 252p., index. New York: Coward McCann, 1942.
Debates the question of whether air power has superseded sea power in the light of action since 1939. Concludes that lack of sea power is a fatal Axis weakness. |
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| 76 | SMITH, Kevin. Conflict over Convoys: Anglo-American Logistics Diplomacy in the Second World War. xvi, 318p., bibliog., index. Cambridge: CUP, 1996. ISBN: 0521497256.
A fascinating account of a little-understood area where strategic ambition was blunted by logistical reality. |
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| 77 | STRABOLGI, [J. M. K.], Lord. Sea Power in the Second World War. 136p., illus., index. London: Hutchinson, 1943.
A strategic overview of the war between German land power and British sea power. |
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| 78 | THOMPSON, D. S. E. Our Ocean Lifeline (Liberty Handbooks, no. 3). 62p. London: Dent, 1941.
A layman's guide to the important and the unimportant in the war at sea to March 1941. |
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| 79 | TUNSTALL, Brian. Ocean Power Wins. xi, 216p., index. London: Secker & Warburg, 1944.
Attempts to prove the thesis that Allied naval power is the dominating factor in the war. Also looks at ship design and some special areas such as submarine warfare. |
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| 80 | TUNSTALL, Brian. World War at Sea. viii, 319p., index. London: Secker & Warburg, 1942.
A general guide to the war at sea and its strategy. Looks at the relative strengths and opportunities of the belligerents. |
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| 81 | WINTON, John. Convoy: The Defence of Sea Trade 1890-1990. 378p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Joseph, 1983. ISBN: 0718121635.
A broad view by a leading historian with much relevant material. |
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