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| 1102 | CRUICKSHANK, Charles. The German Occupation of the Channel Islands. xii, 370p., bibliog., illus., index. London: OUP, 1975. ISBN: 0192158082.
The only part of the British Isles to be occupied. The RN was involved in their liberation. Sutton published a second illustrated edition in 1990. (ISBN: 0862997690) |
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| 1103 | DURAND, Ralph A. Guernsey under German Rule. 183p. London: Guernsey Society, 1946.
Contains brief general details of the evacuation along with coverage of Alderney and Sark. |
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| 1104 | HOLMES, D. C. Fortress Jersey. Part 2, The German Navy in Jersey. [iii], 72p. Grouville: author, 1978.
A local historian looks at the German occupation forces. |
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| 1105 | PRESTON, Eric. The Commando Raids on Sark in 1943: Disaster of the French/British Joint Raids from Dartmouth (Dartmouth History Research Group, Paper 43). 24p., illus. Dartmouth: Dartmouth History Research Group, 2007. ISBN: 1899011250.
A full account of small actions which went wrong. |
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| 1106 | RAMSEY, Winston G. The War in the Channel Islands: Then and Now. 254p., illus. London: Battle of Britain Prints International, 1981. ISBN: 0900913223.
A detailed and extensively illustrated account, which also looks at surviving evidence of the occupation. |
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| 1107 | WOOD, Alan, & WOOD, Mary. Islands in Danger: The Story of the German Occupation of the Channel Islands 1940-1945. 255p., illus., index. London: Evans, 1955; New York: Macmillan, 1956.
An enquiry into what really happened during the occupation of "our dear Channel Islands," as Churchill called them. A good account. |
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| 1108 | HAVERS, R. P. W. Battle for Cherbourg (Battle Zone Normandy). 191p., bibliog., illus., index. Stroud:, Sutton, 2004. ISBN: 9780750930062.
The fall of Cherbourg was in part due to naval bombardment. |
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| 1109 | MOULTON, J. L. Battle for Antwerp. 208p., illus., index. London: Ian Allan, 1978. ISBN: 0711007691.
The liberation of the city and the opening of the Scheldt in 1944. Also contains a comparative review of the 1915 landings at Gallipoli. |
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| 1110 | PATERSON, Lawrence. Black Flag: The Surrender of Germany’s U-Boat Forces on Land and at Sea. xii, 196p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Seaforth, 2009. ISBN: 9781848320376.
One of the last but most dramatic acts of the naval war, the story of how the surrender was handled has never been treated at length before. This book uncovers much new material about the process itself and the ruthless aftermath for both the crews and their boats. |
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| 1111 | RAWLING, Gerald. Cinderella Operation: The Battle for Walcheren 1944. 184p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Cassell, 1980. ISBN: 030430641X.
A lively general account based principally on secondary sources. |
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| 1112 | SKINNER, Richard W. The Saint and the Sparrow: The Sinking of U-309. 33p., bibliog., illus. Storrington: Historic Military Press, 2003. ISBN: 1901313182.
HMCS St John and EG9 sank U 309 in the Moray Firth in February 1945. This tells the story of the ships, the action and the wreck as it lies today. |
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| 1113 | TARRANT, V. E. The Last Year of the Kriegsmarine May 1944-May 1945. 256p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Arms & Armour, 1994. ISBN: 1854091697.
A good solid operational history from an unusual perspective. |
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| 1114 | THOMPSON, R. W. The Eighty-Five Days: The Story of the Battle of the Scheldt. 235p., index. London: Hutchinson; New York: Ballantine, 1957.
The land battle to open the Scheldt and the port of Antwerp, including the Walcheren landing. |
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| 1115 | WHITE, John. Endgame: the U-Boat Inshore Campaign. U-Boat Attacks on Britain's East Coast, December 1944-May 1945. 128p., bibliog., illus., index. Stroud: History Press, 2008. ISBN: 9781862274853.
The first account of this neglected campaign. |
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| 1116 | ZIEMKE, Earl F. The German Northern Theater of Operations, 1940–1945. (Department of the Army Pamphlet, No. 20-271). xi, 342p., illus., index. Washington: Department of the Army, 1960 An official study of operations in Norway and Finland, seeking lessons from the German experience of an amphibious attack and of Arctic warfare. Based in large part on captured German military and naval records it covers firstly the campaign in Denmark and Norway in 1940 and secondly the campaign in Finland against the Russians in 1941-45. Reprinted in 2009 by the Naval and Military Press, ISBN: 9781843425038. It was then republished in 2012 as Hitler’s Forgotten Armies: Combat in Norway and Finland, edited by Bob Carruthers, q.v., ISBN: 9781781580998. |
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| 1117 | BROWN, David. The British Pacific and East Indies Fleets: The Forgotten Fleets 50th Anniversary. 120p., illus. Liverpool: Brodie, 1995. ISBN: 1874447284.
A series of essays published to accompany the ceremonies at Portsmouth. Well-illustrated, with good chronologies and fleet details as well as a variety of essays by well-known experts in the field. |
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| 1118 | BUGGY, Hugh. Pacific Victory: A Short History of Australia’s Part in the War against Japan. 302p., illus. Melbourne: Ministry of Information, [1946].
Intended as an interim account "to whet the public appetite" for the full official histories. |
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| 1119 | CAIRNS, Lynne. Fremantle's Secret Fleets: Allied Submarines Based in Western Australia during World War II (Maritime History Series, no. 1). vi, 87p., bibliog., illus. Fremantle: Western Australian Maritime Museum, 1995. ISBN: 0730964329.
Mainly concerned with the US submarines based at Fremantle, the book also considers the impact on the port and summarises the role of the British and Dutch boats. A second edition entitled Secret Fleets was published in 2011 (ISBN: 9781920843526). |
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| 1120 | CREED, David. Operations of the Fremantle Submarine Base 1942-1945 (Monograph 183). 64p., illus. Garden Island: Naval Historical Society of Australia, 1984. ISBN: 0909153094.
Although these were mainly American, due notice is given to the work of RN and Dutch submarines. Limited edition of 1,000 copies. |
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| 1121 | DEXTER, David. The New Guinea Offensives (Australia in the War of 1939-1945. Series 1 (Army), Volume VI). xx, 851p., illus. Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1961.
Relates how the Australian Army, supported by Allied naval and air forces, and with the help of some American regiments, drove the Japanese out of most of the mainland of Australian New Guinea in 1943 and early 1944. It also describes the concurrent operations of the American Army and amphibious forces in the Pacific. |
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