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| 1182 | BONNETT, Stanley. The Price of Admiralty: An Indictment of the Royal Navy 1805–1966. 272p., bibliog., illus., index. Lon-don: Hale, 1968. ISBN: 0709104065. A social history which views the treatment of the lower deck as consistently shameful. En route he savages Churchill, battleship design, Pound, and officers. Two chapters on WWII. |
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| 1183 | CARR, William Guy. Out of the Mists: Great Deeds of the Navy in the Last War and Her Role Today. 176p., illus., index. London: Hutchinson, 1941.
The last quarter of the book is a racist polemic against the Germans and a complaint that the government consistently ignores his advice. |
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| 1184 | CHATTERTON, E. Keble, & EDWARDS, Kenneth. The Royal Navy: From September 1939 to September 1945 (Britain at War). 5 vols., illus. London: Hutchinson, 1942–47.
A chronological account which is profusely illustrated. A highly selective and patriotic viewpoint of the war is given. |
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| 1185 | DRUMMOND, John. Through Hell and High Water: With the Men of the Little Ships of the Royal Navy. x, 146p., illus. London: Sampson Low, [1944].
One of the Official Naval Reporters, a sort of serving war correspondent, presents a range of inspiring naval deeds, rather wider than the subtitle suggests. |
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| 1186 | EDWARDS, Kenneth. The Navy of Today. 206p., illus. London: Blackie, 1939.
Published just as war began, this book's interest lies in the way the Navy was presented to the British public late in 1939. A revised edition was published in 1941 and a third edition in 1945. Essentially a propaganda work. |
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| 1187 | GREAT BRITAIN. Admiralty. British Vessels Lost at Sea 1939-1945. vi, 70 p.; vi, 103 p. Cambridge: PSL, 1976. ISBN: 0850592674.
A reprint of the two major reference works published in 1947 by the Admiralty: Ships of the Royal Navy - Statement of Losses during the Second World War; and British Merchant Vessels Lost or Damaged by Enemy Action during the Second World War. An important work of reference. A second revised edition was published in 1983. |
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| 1188 | GREAT BRITAIN. Admiralty. The Second World War 1939–1945: A List of British Naval Anniversaries. 21p. London: HMSO, [c.1946].
A cyclostyled day-by-day table of events in highly patriotic vein. |
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| 1189 | GREAT BRITAIN. Admiralty. Ships of the Royal Navy: Statement of Losses during the Second World War. 70p., index. London: HMSO, 1947.
Lists and tabulates the losses and their causes as known at the date of publication. |
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| 1190 | HARDY, A. C. Everyman's History of the Sea War. 3 vols., illus., index. London: Nicholson & Watson, 1948–55.
First drafted during the war and revised later as censorship began to disappear, this is a war history of the RN by a well-qualified author. |
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| 1191 | HARPER, J. E. T. The Royal Navy at War (Britain at War Series). 71p., illus. London: John Murray, 1941.
A glossy basic guide with a heavily patriotic tone. |
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| 1192 | HATTENDORF, John B., ed. British Naval Documents, 1204–1960. xviii, 1,196p., bibliog., illus., index. Aldershot: Scolar Press for the Navy Records Society, 1993. ISBN: 0859679470.
The centenary volume of the NRS is arranged chronologically and contains a wealth of twentieth-century material from the text of the 1922 Washington Treaty, to diary entries of convoy actions and reports on centralised messing. A good, varied selection of source documents. |
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| 1193 | HILL, J. R. The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy. xiv, 480p., bibliog., illus., index. Oxford: OUP, 1995. ISBN: 0192116754.
A well-presented history with notably good plans. The sections on the 1930s and the Second World War are by Geoffrey Till and Eric Grove. A good general introduction. |
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| 1194 | HINSLEY, F. H. Command of the Sea: The Naval Side of British History from 1918 to the End of the Second World War. 104p., illus., index. London: Christophers, 1950.
A brief presentation of the salient facts of the period. |
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| 1195 | HOPE, Stanton. Sea Breezes: A Tonic from the Royal Navy. 64p. London: W. H. Allen, 1942.
"Vignettes of naval activities interspersed with personal reminiscences and a few experiences of navy men of [the author's] wide acquaintance." |
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| 1196 | HOWARTH, Stephen. The Royal Navy's Reserves in War and Peace 1903-2003. xii, 196p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Cooper, 2003. ISBN: 184415016X.
A centenary history with two dozen pages on WW2. Although well told, there is an inevitable compression and use of anecdotes and individual tales to illustrate trends and act as examples. |
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| 1197 | HURD, Archibald. Britannia Has Wings: The Fleet in Action - On, Over and Under the Sea. 112p., illus., index. London: Hutchinson, [1942].
A sort of potted history of the Royal Navy in the twentieth century. Successful British actions of WWII are described in the second half of the work. |
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| 1198 | JACKSON, Robert. The Royal Navy in World War II. 176p., illus., index. Shrewsbury: Airlife, 1997. ISBN: 185310714X.
A well-illustrated but very basic history of the war at sea, based on secondary sources. |
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| 1199 | KEMP, Paul J. Sunk and Damaged: Royal Navy Casualties in World War 2. 138p., illus. London: ISO, 1997.
A photobook in two sections covering loss and damage subarranged by ship type. Cheaply produced but a good selection of pictures, many from the IWM, and well-researched captions. |
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| 1200 | KENT, Barrie. Signal! A History of Signalling in the Royal Navy. xi, 371p., bibliog., illus., index. Clanfield: Hyden House, 1993. ISBN: 1856230066. A gently informative and ruminating history, much of it relating to the problems of expanding both numbers and technology in WWII. A second edition was published in 2004. |
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| 1201 | LANGMAID, Kenneth. The Blind Eye. xxi, 166p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Jarrolds, 1972. ISBN: 0091102006.
Examines nine incidents in which the man on the spot followed Nelson's example at Copenhagen and acted independently in the interpretation of orders, or in ignoring them completely. The WWII cases studied are Cunningham's disarming of the French Fleet at Alexandria, Vian and the Bismarck hunt, Walker's tactics in the escort of convoy HG84, and the submarine Storm on a special mission to Sumatra. |
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