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| 1142 | MADAN, N. N. The Arakan Operations 1942-1945 (Official History of the Indian Armed Forces in the Second World War, 1939-45. Campaigns in the Eastern Theatre). xxx, 371p., bibliog., illus., index. Calcutta: Combined Inter-Services Historical Section (India & Pakistan), 1954. These operations in Burma involved a number of amphibious landings in which the RN and RIN took part. A good account. Reprinted by Pentagon Press in New Delhi in 2012, ISBN: 9788182746626. |
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| 1143 | MARDER, Arthur J., JACOBSEN, Mark, & HORSFIELD, John. Old Friends, New Enemies: The Royal Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy: The Pacific War 1942-1945. xxx, 621p., bibliog., illus., index. Oxford: Clarendon, 1990. ISBN: 0198201508.
Marder had done much of the research for the second volume and drafted the earlier chapters. The work was completed by two former pupils. Although the work is flawed and unbalanced it remains an essential work on the topic. |
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| 1144 | MICHNO, Gregory F. Death on the Hellships: Prisoners at Sea in the Pacific War. xiii, 366p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Cooper; Annapolis: NIP, 2001. ISBN: 1557504822 (US).
Over 20,000 POWs died at sea, the majority in friendly fire incidents. Their suffering is eloquently described. |
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| 1145 | MOUNTBATTEN, Lord Louis. Personal Diary of Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South-East Asia 1943-1946, edited by Philip Ziegler. xiv, 357p., illus, index. London: Collins, 1988. ISBN: 0002176076.
Not much naval interest, but this unexpurgated diary has lots of useful titbits of information. |
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| 1146 | PFENNIGWERTH, Ian. The Royal Australian Navy and MacArthur. 208p., bibliog., illus., index. Dural Delivery Centre, N.S.W. : Rosenberg, 2009. ISBN: 9781877058837.
A history which demonstrates how much MacArthur's success was dependent on RAN support. |
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| 1147 | ROBERTS, W. O. C. The British Pacific Fleet 1945 (Monograph 113). 19p., illus. Garden Island: Naval Historical Society of Australia, 1991.
Based on a 1983 lecture, this is a brief operational history. |
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| 1148 | SHORES, Christopher. Air War for Burma: The Third and Concluding Volume of the Bloody Shambles Series. The Allied Air Forces Fight Back in South-East Asia 1942-1945. 448p., illus. London: Grub Street, 2005. ISBN: 1904010954. Some marginal naval interest in yet another excellent detailed volume arranged chronologically. |
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| 1149 | SIBLEY, Peter. The Behar Massacre: The Execution of 69 Survivors from the British Merchant Ship Behar in 1944 by the Imperial Japanese Navy. 118p., illus. Stockport: A. Lane, 1997. ISBN: 1897666136.
The documents discovered by the author are reprinted with a linking text to reveal a brutal episode late in the war when the cruiser Tone killed its prisoners 10 days after the sinking of the ship. The incident led to a war crimes trial. |
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| 1150 | SMITH, Peter C. Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet 1944-1945. 206p., illus., index. London: Kimber, 1969. ISBN: 0718302516.
An able and detailed history of the successes and tribulations of the fleet, but one which really tells of the RN’s only operations as a major carrier force. Reprinted in 1994. |
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| 1151 | THOMSON, Max. Invasion of Tarakan (Borneo), 1945 (Monograph 23). 16p., illus. Garden Island: Naval Historical Society of Australia, 1992.
A description of Operation Oboe 1, the invasion of Tarakan Island by Australian Forces. |
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| 1152 | WALLACE, Robert. The Secret Battle 1942-1944: The Convoy Battle off the East Coast of Australia during World War II. 96p., bibliog., illus., index. Ringwood: Lamont, 1995. ISBN: 1875630481.
A profusely illustrated but thin account of this campaign. |
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| 1153 | WILLMOTT, H. P. Grave of a Dozen Schemes: British Naval Planning and the War against Japan 1943-1945. xviii, 316p., bibliog., index. Shrewsbury: Airlife; Annapolis: NIP, 1996. ISBN: 1853107778.
Originally his thesis, this is now a book which clearly delineates the confusions and differences of view which governed the UK's attempt to develop a strategy for the war against Japan. Britain found it difficult to choose between an Indian Ocean amphibious strategy and a Pacific-based fleet strategy - and arguably could afford neither. |
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| 1154 | WINTON, John. Sink the Haguro!: The Last Destroyer Action of the Second World War. x, 182p., bibliog., illus., index. London, Seeley; New York: Shoestring, 1979. ISBN: 0854221522.
Describes the classic action in which British destroyers sank a Japanese cruiser in the Malacca Straits. |
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| 1155 | WINTON, John. The Forgotten Fleet. [2], 433p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Joseph, 1969. ISBN: 0718106431.
The best account of the British Pacific Fleet. Reprinted by Douglas-Boyd Books in 1989. |
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| 1156 | CALLINAN, Bernard J. Independent Company: The 2/2 and 2/4 Australian Independent Companies in Portuguese Timor, 1941-1943. xxxiii, 235p., illus., index. London: Heinemann, 1953.
These two companies fought the Japanese in guerrilla fashion for two years, before evacuation by the RAN. Reprinted in 1984. |
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| 1157 | CONNELL, Brian. Return of the Tiger. 207p., illus. London: Evans, 1960.
Describes two successful raids on Singapore Harbour in 1943 and 1944 in which almost 40,000 tons of Japanese shipping were sunk by a handful of British and Australian raiders in canoes. A new edition was published in 1970. |
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| 1158 | FELTON, Mark. The Fujita Plan: Japanese Attacks on the United States & Australia During the Second World War. xiii, 210p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2006. ISBN: 1844154807.
The well known raids on Oregon and Sydney Harbour were only the tip of a much more ambitious programme |
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| 1159 | HAINING, Peter. The Banzai Hunters: The Small Boat Operations that Defeated the Japanese, 1944-5. [vi], 191p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Robson; North Pomfret, VT: Ronson Books, 2006. ISBN: 1861059418.
An account of the little known work of the special forces operating down the Arakan coast of Burma as the Allies advanced. |
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| 1160 | HORNBY, Lawrence. My Starboard Watch. 192p., illus. London: Book Guild, 1985. ISBN: 0863320260.
In August 1944 he went to the Small Operations Group in Ceylon. There are some 25 pages on this, but most of the book covers the post-war period. |
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| 1161 | HORTON, D. C. Ring of Fire: Australian Guerrilla Operations against the Japanese in World War II. xii, 164p., illus., index. Sydney: Macmillan; London: Cooper, 1983. ISBN: 0333356152. The story of special operations behind Japanese lines. The author took part in some of these. |
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