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| 1202 | LAVERY, Brian. Churchill's Navy: The Ships, Men and Organisation 1939-1945. 288p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Conway, 2006. ISBN: 9781844860357.
An excellent guide to the organisation and working of the Navy. |
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| 1203 | LAVERY, Brian. In Which They Served: The Royal Navy Officer Experience in the Second World War. 384p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Conway, 2008. ISBN: 1844860701.
A very enjoyable account of how the naval officer corps was expanded sevenfold, rich in fact and anecdote. |
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| 1204 | LE BAILLY, Louis. From Fisher to the Falklands. xii, 227p., illus., index. London: Institute of Marine Engineers, 1991. ISBN: 0907206409.
The tale of the Engineering Branch of the Royal Navy and how revolutionaries have struggled to ensure the effectiveness of the fleet. |
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| 1205 | LEEMING, Joseph. Brave Ships of England and America. viii, 344p., illus., index. New York: Nelson, 1941.
A set of historical essays on famous ships. The later chapters are concerned with some RN ships of WWII. |
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| 1206 | LEVY, James P. The Royal Navy's Home Fleet in World War II. 256p., bibliog., index. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. ISBN: 1403917736.
A strategic and operational history of the Home Fleet. It examines the role of the home fleet in allied strategy and how well the home fleet carried out the missions assigned to it within the framework of that strategy. |
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| 1207 | LEWIS, Val. Ships' Cats in War and Peace. viii, 199p., bibliog., illus., index. Shepperton: Nauticalia, 2001. ISBN: 0953045811.
Has some anecdotes on WW2 cats. |
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| 1208 | MACARTHUR, Wilson. The Royal Navy. 72p., illus. London: Collins, 1940.
A brief review of how the Navy works in wartime. |
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| 1209 | McKEE, Christopher. Sober Men and True: Sailor Lives in the Royal Navy 1900-1945. [vii], 285p., bibliog., illus., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U.P., 2003. ISBN: 0674007360.
The author has scoured archives and libraries for memoirs which he uses to provide a memorable analysis of lower deck attitudes and habits. Oral histories are used tellingly to make his points. |
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| 1210 | MARDER, Arthur J. From the Dardanelles to Oran: Studies of the Royal Navy in War and Peace 1915–1940. xvii, 301p., illus., index. London: OUP, 1974. ISBN: 0192158023.
A collection of essays by a leading naval historian. Almost two–thirds of the book is concerned with two essays. The first describes Churchill at the Admiralty in 1939–40 and his role in strategy and operations. The second is an analysis of the attack on the French fleet at Mers-el-Kebir. |
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| 1211 | OSBORN, Reg. Trust Me…I'm an Old Sailor, Volume One. 295p., illus. London: Banyan Books, 2006. ISBN: 095415651X. A whole series of tales and personal reminiscences about the Royal Navy through the images and notably in WW2. |
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| 1212 | OWEN, Charles. Plain Yarns from the Fleet. x, 212p., bibliog., illus., index. Stroud: Sutton, 1997. ISBN: 0750907703. A largely social history of the RN in the twentieth century, amplified by well-chosen tales from those who served. These are from a mix of published and archival sources. Reprinted by Wrens Park in 1999. |
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| 1213 | PHILLIPS, Lawrie. The Royal Navy Day by Day. 4th ed. xi, 853p., bibliog., illus., index. Stroud: Spellmount, 2011. ISBN: 970752461779. A fourth edition of the indispensable reference work previously edited by Shrubb then Sainsbury (qv). A much revised fifth edition was published in 2018 (ISBN: 9780750982665). |
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| 1214 | POOLMAN, Kenneth. Experiences of War: The British Sailor. vii, 180p., illus., index. London: Arms & Armour, 1989. ISBN: 085368992X. Over seventy tales from diaries, letters and interviews are used to try and describe what it was like to be a common sailor. A huge range of material is deployed and linked with skill. Republished in paperback in 2000 by Cassell for Past Times and entitled Anchors Aweigh! Recollections of World War II Sailors (ISBN: 0304356328). |
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| 1215 | PRYSOR, Glyn. Citizen Sailors: The Royal Navy in the Second World War. xxi, 552p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Viking, 2011. ISBN: 9780670918546.
A so-called "people's history" which uses personal testimonies to try and capture the experience of everything from action to time on leave. |
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| 1216 | ROGERS, Stanley. Enemy in Sight! 250p., illus. New York: Crowell, 1943.
An account of the RN and Merchant Navy at war. |
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| 1217 | ROGERS, Stanley. More Gallant Deeds of the War. 223p., illus. London: Blackie, 1942.
Stories of the war at sea as fought by the RN. |
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| 1218 | ROSKILL, S. W. The Navy at War 1939–1945. 480p., illus., index. London: Collins; Annapolis: USNIP, 1960.
A single volume history of the RN's war which fails to equal the quality of his three-volume official history. US title: White Ensign. |
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| 1219 | ROSKILL, S. W. The War at Sea. 3 vols. in 4, illus., index. London: HMSO, 1954–1961.
The official British account. An absolutely basic source and a model of its kind. The final volume was reprinted by the Imperial War Museum in 1996 with source notes. |
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| 1220 | SAINSBURY, A. B. The Royal Navy Day by Day. vi, 424p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Allan, 1992. ISBN: 0711021236.
A much revised and expanded edition of the earlier work by Shrubb. A labour of love which is a standard reference work. Has a notably good bibliography. A third edition was published in 2005. |
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| 1221 | SHAW, Frank H. Epic Naval Fights. 280p., illus. London: Laurie, 1955. Some of the major wartime actions are recalled, the sinking of Rawalpindi and Jervis Bay, the Plate battle and its aftermath, the Altmark incident, destroyers at Narvik, MTBs in the Channel, X-craft raids, and Russian convoys. |
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