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| 1802 | KYRLE-POPE, Suzanne. The Same Wife in Every Port. xxi, 299p., illus., index. Durham: Memoir Club, 1998. ISBN: 1841040029.
The autobiography of the daughter of Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton. She was first married to an officer in the Devons based in Malta from 1939-42 and tells an engaging tale of the siege, cipher work and marmalade making for submarine crews. Evacuated to the UK, she worked for Admiralty Intelligence thereafter. |
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| 1803 | MARRIOTT, Edward. Claude and Madeleine: A True Story of Love, War and Espionage. 344p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Picador, 2005. ISBN: 0330419161.
A biography of Claude Péri and Madeleine Bayard which tells of their remarkable wartime adventures, work in SOE and eventual death when he captained Fidelity. An interesting new perspective on the murky tale. |
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| 1804 | MERCER, Neil. Camera at Sea: The History of the Royal Naval Photographic Branch 1919-1998. 144p., bibliog., illus., index. Shrewsbury: Airlife, 1999. ISBN: 1853108898.
Although there are only twenty or so pages on WW2, this is a fascinating and almost by definition beautifully illustrated work. |
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| 1805 | MORRIS, R. O. Charts and Surveys in Peace and War: The History of the RN Hydrographic Service 1919–1970. [v], 280p., bibliog., illus., index. London: HMSO, 1995. ISBN: 0117724564.
Admiral Morris was Hydrographer of the Navy in 1985–90 and brings a deep understanding to the subject, which is fully and effectively covered. |
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| 1806 | POMFRET, Carlene. Cabin Trunks & Far Horizons. [224p.], illus. Ware: MM Productions, 1991. ISBN: 0951768506.
Tells of her lifetime travelling the world as the wife of a Surgeon Rear Admiral from the 1920's through to the 1950's. Includes two episodes where the family stayed in Simonstown |
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| 1807 | RAVEN, Alan. Warship Perspectives, Camouflage Royal Navy. 4 vols., illus. Lynbrook, N.Y.: WR Press, 2000-2003. The volumes are arranged chronologically. |
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| 1808 | REA, Edgar. A Curate's Egg. [x], 261p., illus. Durban: Knox, 1956.
Memoirs of a naval chaplain, with 40 pages on WWII, mainly based at Simonstown. |
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| 1809 | SIGWART, E. E. Royal Fleet Auxiliary: Its Ancestry and Affiliations 1600–1968. [iix], 221p., illus., index. London: Coles, 1969. ISBN: 0229985815. A description of each ship and of its career, with a short introductory essay on the service. |
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| 1810 | SMITH, Peter C. Royal Navy Ships’ Badges. 96p., bibliog., illus., index. St Ives: Balfour, 1974. ISBN: 0859440117. A representative sample of forty badges, with histories of the ships which bore them. |
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| 1811 | T., C. Penrose Tennyson. 164p., illus. [London: A. S. Atkinson], 1943.
A sketch of the life of a promising young Englishman killed in the war. A budding film-maker and head of the Admiralty's Educational Film Unit, he was killed in a plane crash. |
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| 1812 | TAWNEY, Cyril. Grey Funnel Lines: Traditional Song and Verse of the Royal Navy 1900–1970. xvii, 177p., illus., index. London: Routledge, 1987. ISBN: 0710212704.
From the lewd to the maudlin, these songs catalogue Jack's work and play in peace and war. |
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| 1813 | TAYLOR, Gordon. The Sea Chaplains: A History of the Chaplains of the Royal Navy. xx, 603p., illus., index. Oxford: Oxford Illustrated Press, 1979. ISBN: 0902280562.
A general history with full coverage of WWII. Sixteen chaplains died in action and each one is noted. There is also good coverage of the monotony of life, even for a chaplain, on an AMC. |
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| 1814 | THOMSON, George P. Blue Pencil Admiral: The Inside Story of the Press Censorship. vii, 216p., frontis. London: Low, 1947.
Thomson was recently retired when recalled to act as censor. He describes the unenviable tightrope between informing the public and helping the enemy. |
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| 1815 | WILKINSON, B. J., STOPFORD, T. P. & TAYLOR, D. The A to Z of Royal Navy Ships' Badges 1919-1989. 2 vols., illus. Orpington: Neptune, 1987-88. ISBN: 187084200X (v.1); 1870842022 (v.2).
Only two volumes were published and were arranged alphabetically covering Abdiel to Buzzard. |
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| 1816 | Prisoners of War: Naval and Air Forces of Great Britain and the Empire 1939–1945. 162p. Polstead: Heywood, 1990. ISBN: 0903754622.
An alphabetical nominal register by service and country. A facsimile reprint of a 1945 government listing. |
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| 1817 | ANDERSON, Ted, & ROWE, Robin. Nippon's Guest: A Sailor Prisoner of War in Japan. 164p., bibliog., illus., index. Christow: Devonshire House, 1995. ISBN: 0952451328.
Anderson was a CPO on Exeter when she was sunk. He was moved from his first camp at Macassar to Nagasaki where he worked in a shipyard for three years and survived the atomic bomb attack on the city. This account is largely based on a contemporary diary which he managed to keep in shorthand throughout his captivity. |
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| 1818 | BANCROFT, Arthur. H.M.A.S. Perth Survivors: Prisoners of War 1942-45 (Naval Historical Society of Australia, Monograph No. 32). 20p., illus. Garden Island, NSW: Naval Historical Society of Australia, 1991.
The author was one of the 229 survivors of Perth who returned home in 1945. A very personal account. |
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| 1819 | BANCROFT, Arthur. The Mikado's Guests: A Story of Japanese Captivity. 171p., illus. Perth, WA: Paterson's, 1945.
This story told by a survivor from HMAS Perth gives a real idea of the adventures and sufferings of a group of POW's in the hands of the Japanese. Able-Seaman Bancroft was a POW in Japanese hands from March1942 to September 1944. |
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| 1820 | BANHAM, Tony. The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru: Britain's Forgotten Wartime Tragedy. xx, 300p., bibliog., illus., index. Aberdeen: Hong Kong University Press, 2006. ISBN: 9622097715.
Of the 4500 of the Hong Kong garrison who died during the war some one thousand died directly or indirectly when their transport to Japan was sunk by USS Grouper in late 1942. A detailed account. |
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| 1821 | BANHAM, Tony. We Shall Suffer There: Hong Kong's Defenders Imprisoned, 1942-45. xviii, 354p., bibliog., illus., index. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9622099602.
This is the first work that documents the experiences of Hong Kong's prisoners of war and civilian internees from their capture by the Japanese in December 1941, to liberation, rescue, and repatriation. While the prisoner-of-war main camps in Hong Kong itself have been mentioned in many other works, there has so far been no definitive chronology of their operation. Where the camps in Japan (to which many of the Hong Kong POWs were sent in six main drafts) have been mentioned, coverage has been superficial and limited in scope, and many camps have been entirely overlooked. This book includes them all, and the movements between them, using only primary sources and only - as far as possible - the words of those involved. |
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