| Name: | Statistical Analysis and Listings |
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Documents: 8
| 4052 | BROWN, David. Warship Losses of World War Two. 256p., illus., index. London: Arms & Armour; Annapolis: NIP, 1990. ISBN: 0853688028.
A comprehensive listing of over 1,600 losses by all the combatants. It excludes submarines and small craft. There is a valuable introductory essay and the losses are annotated in some detail. A revised edition was published in 1995, ISBN: 1854092782. |
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| 4053 | FISCHER, Gerald. A Statistical Summary of Shipbuilding under the US Maritime Commission during World War II (Historical Reports of War Administration. United States Maritime Commission, no. 2). 164p. New York: USGPO, 1949.
A comprehensive set of tables. |
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| 4054 | GREAT BRITAIN. Admiralty. German, Italian and Japanese U-Boat Casualties during the War: Particulars of Destruction (Cmd. 6843). 35p. London: HMSO, 1946.
Gives the individual causes of each submarine's loss in a chronological table for each country. Also has monthly cumulative totals in a separate table. |
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| 4055 | GREAT BRITAIN. Admiralty. German, Italian and Japanese U-Boat Casualties during the War: Statistical Statement (Cmd. 6751). 5p. London: HMSO, 1946.
The result of a joint British–US official investigation, giving the results in tabular form. |
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| 4056 | GREAT BRITAIN. Central Statistical Office. Statistical Digest of the War (History of the Second World War. UK Civil Series). xii, 248p. London: HMSO, 1951.
Contains 193 tables, some of which record warship construction, merchant vessel construction and repair, and merchant shipping movements and losses. |
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| 4057 | HAGUE, Arnold. The Allied Convoy System 1939–1945: Its Organization, Defence and Operation. 208p., illus. London: Chatham, 2000. ISBN: 1551250330.
An excellent descriptive account of all aspects of the convoy system, opening up many neglected areas. Almost half of the book consists of statistical and data appendices including a very useful and previously unpublished list of convoy departure and arrival dates. An essential reference work. |
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| 4059 | ROSS, Tweed W. The Best Way to Destroy a Ship: The Evidence of European Naval Operations in World War II. iv, 213p., bibliog., illus. Manhattan, Kan.: MA/AH Publishing, 1980. ISBN: 0891260692.
A statistical analysis of how ships were lost. Fairly predictable conclusions, except that cruisers are shown to be very ineffective. |
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| 4060 | WILLIAMS, David. Wartime Disasters at Sea: Every Passenger Ship Loss in World Wars I and II. 248p., bibliog., illus., index. Sparkford: PSL, 1997. ISBN: 1852605650
Over 500 entries in chronological order cover every passenger liner lost. Most are accompanied by a picture and the circumstances of loss are given. |
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