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| 122 | PIEKALKIEWICZ, Janusz. Sea War 1939-1945. 353p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Blandford, 1987. ISBN: 0713716657.
First published in Germany in 1980, this translated work is an unusual mixture of contemporary official and news reports and current comment on what really happened. A chronological format is used and aims at being comprehensive. |
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| 123 | PITT, Barrie. History of the Second World War. 8 vols., illus., index. London: Purnell, 1966.
Pitt edited this general history, published as a part-work, but containing many original articles of naval interest, now much cited. |
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| 124 | POLMAR, N. Aircraft Carriers: A Graphic History of Carrier Aviation and Its Influence on World Events. xi, 788p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Macdonald; Garden City: Doubleday, 1969. ISBN: 0356028054.
A well-illustrated and scholarly account which concentrates on the Pacific battles. |
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| 125 | POOLMAN, Kenneth. Allied Submarines of World War Two. 160p., illus. London: Arms & Armour, 1990. ISBN: 0853689423.
Recounts some of the better-known tales. |
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| 126 | POTTER, E. B., & NIMITZ, Chester. The Great Sea War: The Story of Naval Action in World War II. ix, 468p., illus., index. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1960; London: Harrap, 1961.
An American work aimed at that market and adapted from their earlier work called Sea Power. Later republished by Bramhall House. |
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| 127 | ROBERTSON, Stuart & DENT, Stephen. Conway's The War at Sea in Photographs 1939-1945. 240p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Conway, 2007. ISBN: 1844860450.
A beautifully illustrated general account with a mixture of well known and new images, well reproduced. |
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| 128 | ROGERS, Stanley. Sailors at War. 218p., illus. London: Harrap, 1942.
Some tales of the war at sea, all more or less well-known. |
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| 129 | ROHWER, Jurgen. War at Sea 1939-1945. 192p., illus., index. London: Chatham, 1996. ISBN: 1861760027.
First published in Germany in 1992, this is a brief photographic introduction to the major events of the naval war. |
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| 130 | ROHWER, J., & HUMMELCHEN, G. Chronology of the War at Sea 1939-1945. 2 vols., illus., index. London: Ian Allan, 1972-1974.
Translated from the German, this diary-style chronology is probably the most detailed account of the war at sea in all theaters. It is heavily compressed and shows some German bias. A revised one-volume second edition was published by Greenhill and the Naval Institute Press in 1992 (ISBN: 1853671177) and a revised third edition in 2005 (ISBN: 1861760027). |
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| 131 | SADKOVICH, James J., ed. Reevaluating Major Naval Combatants of World War II. xxii, 203p., bibliog., index. New York: Greenwood, 1990. ISBN: 0313261490.
A collection of short essays which reconsiders the role of all the major combatants in turn. |
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| 132 | SALOMON, Henry. Victory at Sea. 256p., illus. New York: Doubleday, 1959.
A pictorial history of the war from the excellent NBC television series of the same name. |
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| 133 | SMITH, B. Webster. The Naval War 1943-1945. 207p., illus. London: Blackie, [1946].
The final volume of the author’s coverage of the war at sea begins with the invasion of Italy and continues to the end of the war, although the British contribution in the Far East is largely ignored. |
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| 134 | SMITH, B. Webster. The Navy Strikes. 224p., illus. London: Blackie, 1942.
A history of the first two years of the war at sea. The main events are described in an inevitably partisan fashion. |
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| 135 | SMITH, B. Webster. The War at Sea 1941-1943. 193p., illus. London: Blackie, [1944].
A straightforward compilation culled from official sources forms the second volume of the trilogy. |
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| 136 | SMITH, Gordon. The War at Sea: Royal and Dominion Navy Actions in World War 2. 192p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Ian Allan, 1989. ISBN: 0711017395.
A useful chronology of the war at sea, with fuller background information than in Rohwer's chronology. The layout is rather too confusing for easy reference. |
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| 137 | SMITH, Peter C. Impact! The Dive Bomber Pilots Speak. 253p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Kimber, 1981. ISBN: 0718300785. Norway, Dunkirk, Malta convoys, Pacific carrier battles, and attacks on the Tirpitz are all represented in this account of dive-bomber development and use in WWII. Reprinted in 2007 by Pen & Sword Aviation as The History of Dive Bombing: A comprehensive History from 1911 Onward. ISBN: 1844155927. |
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| 138 | SMITH, Peter C. The Great Ships Pass: British Battleships at War 1939-1945. xiii, 544p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Kimber, 1977. ISBN: 0870218263.
A substantial history of the war at sea describing all actions where battleships were involved. The author advances the thesis that the battleship played an important and significant role throughout that war and that the aircraft carrier merely modified that role rather than replaced it - and in fact, the carrier was to some extent dependent on the battleship. |
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| 139 | SPECTOR, Ronald. At War at Sea: Sailors and Naval Combat in the Twentieth Century. xiii, 463p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Allen Lane, 2001. ISBN: 0670860859.
A sweeping overview from a professional historian, with fresh eyewitness tales and an absorbing preoccupation with the impact of the individual. |
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| 140 | STEPHEN, Martin, edited by GROVE, Eric. Sea Battles in Close-Up: World War 2. 224p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Ian Allan, 1988. ISBN: 0711015961.
The Battle of the River Plate, the attack on Taranto, the Battle of Matapan, the sinking of Hood and Bismarck, the sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse, the Channel Dash, the Battle of the Coral Sea, the Battle of Midway, the Battle of the Barents Sea, and the sinking of the Scharnhorst. Based on the excellent individual volumes published by Ian Allan in the 1970s, this is a rather disappointing update and expansion. A second and better volume was later produced by Grove alone. Still a useful and concise set of accounts. |
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| 141 | STORRS, Ronald, & GRAVES, Philip. A Record of the War. 24 vols. London: Hutchinson, [1940-47].
This contemporary quarterly record consists essentially of a commentary and speculation on the official communiqués. As such, while covering the whole war, it reflects the state of the war at sea as reported by the British government. |
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