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| 1242 | LOEWENHEIM, Francis L., LANGLEY, Harold D., & JONAS, Manfred. Roosevelt and Churchill: Their Secret Wartime Correspondence. 807p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Barrie & Jenkins; New York: Saturday Review Press, 1975. ISBN: 0841503346. Over 500 documents are annotated and a scholarly introduction to the relationship given. |
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| 1243 | MARCHANT, James. Winston Spencer Churchill, Servant of Crown and Commonwealth: A Tribute by Various Hands Presented to Him on his Eightieth Birthday. ix, 172p., frontis. London: Cassell, 1954.
Includes an article by Lord Fraser of North Cape on Churchill and the Navy, directed mainly at events in WWII. |
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| 1244 | MARDER, Arthur J. Winston Is Back: Churchill at the Admiralty 1939–40 (English Historical Review, Supplement 5). 60p., bibliog. London: Longman, 1972.
This great historian brings a wealth of knowledge to the discussion of this eventful period. |
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| 1245 | ROSKILL, S. W. Churchill and the Admirals. 351p., illus., index. London: Collins, 1977; New York: Morrow, 1978. ISBN: 0002161273.
An excellent piece of research and scholarship. Although covering well-worn ground, the author brings a fresh view to the argument on how far Churchill ignored the advice of his professional advisers both as politician and amateur naval strategist. |
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| 1246 | WHEATLEY, Dennis. Stranger than Fiction. 353p., illus. London: Hutchinson, 1952.
The famous novelist served on the Joint Planning Staff in WWII and many of the position papers he wrote are reprinted in this volume. |
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| 1247 | HACKMANN, Willem. Seek and Strike: Sonar, Anti-Submarine Warfare and the Royal Navy 1914–1954. xxxv, 487p., bibliog., illus., index. London: HMSO, 1984. ISBN: 0112904238.
A comprehensive technical and organisational history. |
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| 1248 | LLEWELLYN-JONES, Malcolm. The Royal Navy and Anti-Submarine Warfare, 1917-1949 (Cass Series: Naval Policy and History, 37). xv, 223p., bibliog. London: Routledge, 2006. ISBN: 0415385326. ISBN: 0415385326.
Focuses on the later war period and Cold War, when truly submersible boats became capable of continuously submerged operations. |
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| 1249 | MEIGS, Montgomery C. Slide Rules and Submarines: American Scientists and Subsurface Warfare in World War II. xxiii, 269p., bibliog., illus., index. Washington: National Defense UP, 1989. ISBN: 0898759056.
Looks at the interface between scientific research, its operational introduction, and institutional inhibitors of change, taking US antisubmarine warfare and the Battle of the Atlantic along with Admiral King's role, as an example. |
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| 1250 | OWEN, David. Anti-Submarine Warfare: An Illustrated History. 224p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Seaforth, 2007. ISBN: 1844157032.
Attempts to cover the whole topic from technology to tactics in accessible form. |
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| 1251 | PRICE, Alfred. Aircraft versus Submarine: The Evolution of the Anti-Submarine Aircraft, 1912 to 1972. xvi, 268, [24]p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Kimber, 1973. ISBN: 0718304128.
A full history from early days to the Nimrod of today. A second revised and expanded edition appeared in 1980. |
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| 1252 | WATTS, Anthony J. The U-Boat Hunters. 192p., bibliog., illus. London: Macdonald & Jane's, 1976. ISBN: 035608244X.
A profusely illustrated account of the development of anti–submarine warfare during the war. |
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| 1253 | WHINNEY, Bob. The U-Boat Peril: An Anti-Submarine Commander's War. 160p., bibliog., illus., index. Poole: Blandford, 1986; New York: Sterling, 1987. ISBN: 0713718218.
An autobiography. He began the war as A/S specialist in Duncan in Shanghai, but quickly returned to the UK. After a brief spell in the A/S Warfare School he went to Cossack in the summer of 1940 and took part in the Bismarck hunt. He then went to join the staff of C-in-C South Atlantic as Fleet A/S Officer. In early 1943 he took over Wanderer and joined EG B1 in the Atlantic and Arctic and finally served as a D-Day convoy escort. In October 1944 he joined the Anti-U-Boat Division of the Admiralty. |
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| 1254 | WILLIAMS, Mark. Captain Gilbert Roberts, RN and the Anti-U-Boat School. iv, 186p., index. London: Cassell, 1979. ISBN: 0304303860.
Recalled in 1940 to the Admiralty, in 1942 he set up the Western Approaches Tactical Unit, which devised tactics and passed them on to escort Commanders. |
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| 1255 | Mountbatten: Eighty Years in Pictures. 224p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Macmillan,; New York: Viking, 1979. ISBN: 0333265580.
An anonymous biography, although the subject is reputed to have had a large hand in it. Certainly, many of Mountbatten's private photographs are included. There is some coverage of his part in WWII. |
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| 1256 | ADAMS, Robert. Signal Boy. xiv, 380p., illus. London: Serendipity, 2002. ISBN: 1843940132.
Memoirs of a full life. He joined up as a boy sailor in 1938 and after training at Ganges, joined Eagle in the Far East and stayed with her as she moved steadily west. In September 1940 he joined Gloucester in Alexandria. After six months he joined Hasty in February 1941 and served throughout the Crete campaign before transferring to Formidable., from which he swiftly moved first to Tank Landing Craft then back to the UK to join Howe. When she went to the Mediterranean, he was transferred to Le Fantasque. In December 1943 he was rated Yeoman, took a three month course then joined Indomitable and served with her in the Far East until war's end. Interesting but rather rose-tinted. |
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| 1257 | AGAR, Augustus. Footprints in the Sea. 336p., illus., index. London: Evans, 1959.
The autobiography of Captain Agar. The final third of the book concerns World War II, in which he commanded Emerald for nine months, was then with Coastal Forces until mid-1941, when he took command of Dorsetshire, where he stayed until her sinking. |
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| 1258 | ALLISTON, John. Destroyer Man. xx, 88p., illus., index. Richmond: Greenhouse, 1985. ISBN: 0909104816.
Alliston was a regular and in 1939 was First Lieutenant of the new Kandahar. After a winter in the North Sea, she moved to the Red Sea. In 1941 she moved to the Mediterranean and operations around Crete. Later that year he took command of Decoy again in the Mediterranean. After convalescing from wounds received in Malta he moved to Javelin and took her home to the UK in 1943. Then came a spell in Shropshire in the Pacific with TF74, until he took command of Warramunga in September 1944 and of Urania in May 1945. Enjoyable but slight. |
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| 1259 | ANDERSON, C. C. Seagulls in My Belfry: The Very Personal History of a Naval Career. [vi], 202p., illus. Durham: Pentland, 1997. ISBN: 1858214610.
An enjoyable and pungent account of a varied career. He entered Dartmouth in 1930. By 1939 he was in MTBs and early in 1940 was put in command of the 10th MTB Flotilla based at Haslar. In 1941 they moved to the Eastern Mediterranean where they saw much action. In 1943 he moved to be First Lieutenant of Scarborough in an Atlantic Escort Group. In mid 1944 he took command of Wivern, supporting East Coast convoys. There is an interesting if bitter account of her sinking of U 714 credited to Natal. In mid-1944 she paid off and he took Loch Killisport to the Far East. Also covers his later career. |
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| 1260 | ASHMORE, Sir Edward. The Battle and the Breeze: The Naval Reminiscences of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Edward Ashmore. [vi], 282p., illus., index. Stroud: Sutton, 1997. ISBN: 0750912529.
From a naval family, he joined Dartmouth in 1933 and was on his sublieutenant's courses when war began. In January 1940 he joined Jupiter based at Hull. After convoy duties she took part in the Norwegian campaign before being based at Plymouth. In mid-1941 he stood by Middleton which completed at the end of 1941. After six months with the Home Fleet she went to the Mediterranean. After hard action it was back to Scapa and the fringes of PQ17. A spell on the staff at King Alfred was followed by a Signals Long Course, then appointment as Fleet Wireless Officer on Duke of York with the Home Fleet. In November 1944 he joined Swiftsure as flag lieutenant to Admiral Brind, commanding the cruisers of the BPF. He was in Tokyo Bay at war's end. A distinguished career continued after the war when he rose to become Chief of the Defence Staff. A well-told tale. The memoirs were edited by Eric Grove. |
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| 1261 | ASHTON, Wilfred. Seven Exciting Years: My Experiences in the Second World War 1939/45. 11p. [n.p.: author], 1990.
A very brief reminiscence, unusually by a chef, with one or two interesting anecdotes. After training he joined the Special Desert Squadron on the Spud Run to Tobruk. He returned to the UK with dental problems in late 1942. After a year ashore he joined Bellona with the Home Fleet and served out the war in her. |
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