Derek Law's Bibliography

Category: Ports and Bases - The Americas

Name:	Ports and Bases - The Americas
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Documents: 17

3033	MILLIGAN, Sean Paul. Quonset Point Naval Air Station: Gem of the Atlantic. 2 Vols. Dover: Arcadia, 1996-98. ISBN: 0752402749 (Vol.1); 0738500372 (Vol. 2). A collection of photographs covering the history of the base which was an important component of the Battle of the Atlantic.	view
4985	COLLINS, Paul W. The Newfyjohn Solution: St. John’s, Newfoundland as a Case Study of Second World War Allied Naval Base Development During the Battle of the Atlantic. 222p., bibliog., illus., index. Calgary, Alberta: WriteAdvice, 2014. ISBN: 9780987891860. A detailed study in the form of a narrative history showing how St John’s developed from a small and poorly defended port in 1939 to the RCN’s main Atlantic escort base named HMCS Avalon.	view
4508	LONGSTAFF, F.V. Esquimalt Naval Base: A History of Its work and Its Defences. 189p., [12p. of plates]. Victoria, B.C.: Victoria Book and Stationery Company, 1942. Although largely concerned with the Victorian period and the early twentieth century, this gives good background on an important naval base. The cover is dated 1941, but the copyright statement is given as 1942.	view
3035	RADDALL, Thomas H. Halifax, Warden of the North. xviii, 348p., bibliog., illus., index. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1948; London: Dent, 1950. A straightforward, mainly social, history with 40 pages covering WWII. A revised edition was published by Doubleday in 1965 taking the story up to 1964 and there are various subsequent editions.	view
3039	STRANACK, Ian. The Andrew and the Onions: The Story of the Royal Navy in Bermuda, 1795–1975. 167p., bibliog., illus., index. Bermuda: Bermuda Maritime Museum Press, 1990. ISBN: 0921560036 Gives a very compressed version of events.	view
3038	SCHRODER, Walter K. Defenses of Narragansett Bay in World War II. xiii, 131p., bibliog., illus., index. Newport: Rhode Island Society, 1980. ISBN: 0917012224. A full account of these deterrent defences with a detailed account of the sinking of U 853 on 6 May 1945.	view
3037	ROMPKEY, Bill. St John's and the Battle of the Atlantic. xxi, 266p., bibliog., illus., index. St John's: Flanker Press, 2009. ISBN: 9781897317396. A popular account of the wartime activity in this key convoy port.	view
3036	RICHARDSON, Evelyn M. B. . . was for Butter and Enemy Craft. [iv], 122p. Halifax, N.S.: Petheric, 1976. ISBN: 0919380220. Her father kept the Bon Portage light in Nova Scotia and this is an account, based on her diary and memories, of the sea war as seen from the lighthouse.	view
3034	MURPHY, Tony, & KENNEY, Paul. The War at Our Doorstep: St. John's during World War Two, an Album. 120p., illus. St. John's, Nfld.: H. Cuff, 1989. ISBN: 0921191480. An atmospheric photographic recollection	view
3025	The Eastern Canadian Port: Now It Can Be Told. 48p., illus. [Halifax, N.S.]: Nova Scotia Light and Power Co. Ltd., [1946]. The port is Halifax and this pamphlet tells of the power company's war work, much of it related to shipping through degaussing or other electrical work.	view
3032	METSON, Graham. An East Coast Port. . . : Halifax at War 1939–1945. 157p., bibliog., illus., index. Toronto: McGraw Hill Ryerson, 1981. ISBN: 0075484188. A book of photographs, interviews, and anecdotes from Canada's major frontline port.	view
3031	LEWIS, Shannon M. ed. A Safe Haven: Sixty Years at the Crow's Nest. 100p., illus. St. John's: Crow's Nest Officers Club, 2002. A revised and updated version of the fortieth anniversary publication. A whole series of anecdotes and memories celebrate the club where weary officers from the Atlantic battleground could relax between convoys.	view
3030	KIMBER, Stephen. Sailors, Slackers and Blind Pigs: Halifax at War. [viii], 342p., bibliog., illus., index. Doubleday Canada, 2002. ISBN: 038525993X. Based on eyewitness accounts, this wartime history describes Halifax at war and the build up to the infamous VE-Day riots of 1945.	view
3029	GODET, Nan, & HARRIS, Edward. Pillars of the Bridge: The Establishment of the United States Bases on Bermuda during the Second World War. 30p., illus. Mangrove Bay: Bermuda Maritime Museum Association, 1991. ISBN: 0921560052. A short, detailed account of the creation of the bases and their defences.	view
3028	CHAMBERS, Robert W. Halifax in Wartime. 28p., illus. Halifax, N.S.: Halifax Herald, 1943. A collection of the drawings of the inimitable artist of the Halifax Herald showing the different faces of a port at war.	view
3027	BOWMAN, Phylis. Second World War Memories! 84p., illus. Port Edward, B.C.: author, [1987]. ISBN: 0969090188. Prince Rupert lies on the West Coast of Canada near the mouth of the Skeena River. It grew in importance as a wartime base and this almost entirely photographic record vividly shows its changing role.	view
3026	ANTHONY, Michael. Port-of-Spain in a World at War 1939-1945 (The Making of Port-of-Spain, Volume 2). [xii], 299, iv p., illus., index. Port of Spain: Ministry of Sports, Culture and Youth Affairs, 1983. Trinidad was one of the bases ceded to the Americans under Lend-Lease. This loving and detailed portrait of the island at war is largely reconstructed from newspaper archives.	view