Derek Law's Bibliography

Category: The Channel Dash

Name:	The Channel Dash
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Documents: 9

871	COOKSLEY, Peter G. Operation Thunderbolt: The Nazi Warships’ Escape 1942. 190p., illus., index. London: Hale, 1981. ISBN: 0709194358. A retelling of the story of the Channel Dash to mark the fortieth anniversary of the affair.	view
872	GREAT BRITAIN. Admiralty. Report of the Board of Enquiry Appointed to Enquire into the Circumstances in which the German Battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and Cruiser Prinz Eugen Proceeded from Brest to Germany on February 12th 1942 and on the Operations Undertaken to Prevent the Movement (Cmd. 6775). 38p. London: HMSO, 1946. The official account, which is the basic published source of information on the British side.	view
873	KEMP, P. K. The Escape of the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau (Sea Battles in Close-Up, 14). 96p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Ian Allan; Annapolis: NIP, 1975. ISBN: 0711005877. Another miniature but comprehensive account from this excellent series.	view
874	POTTER, John Deane. Fiasco: Breakout of the German Battleships. viii, 235p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Heinemann; New York: Stein & Day, 1970. Lucidly told.	view
876	ROBERTSON, Terence. Channel Dash: The Drama of Twenty-Four Hours of War. 208p., illus., index. London: Evans; New York: Dutton, 1958. A full, early account of the escape of Scharnhorst and Gneisenau from Brest. It was the subject of a libel action by Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Peirse and was withdrawn in 1962. American sub-title differs.	view
877	TAYLOR, Theodore. Battle in the English Channel. 141p., bibliog., illus., index. New York: Avon Books, 1983. ISBN: 038085225X. An atmospheric popular account.	view
4345	BURKETT, Molly. Once Upon A Wartime VI. 96p., illus. Grantham: Barny Books, 1998. ISBN: 0948204699. Wartime recollections. Pat Kingsmill was a FAA pilot and describes being shot down during the Channel Dash. Another chapter describes the experience of a merchant seaman sunk in convoy HX229.	view
4566	ALDRIDGE, Arthur, with RYAN, Mark. The Last Torpedo Flyers: The True Story of Arthur Aldridge – Hero of the Skies. xiv, 336., illus., index. London: Simon & Schuster, 2013. ISBN: 9781471102752. He left Oxford aged 19 in 1940 and volunteered for the RAF. He spent a brutal two years in the UK and Mediterranean flying Beauforts in such actions as the Channel Dash and the defence of Malta. In 1942 he moved to a quieter theatre based on Ceylon.	view
875	POWELL, Ted. The Channel Dash Heroes. iv, 34p., illus. [n.p. East Kent Branch Fleet Air Arm Association, c.1995]. A tribute to the eighteen men who took part in the Swordfish attack. A full retelling is followed by an account of the work undertaken to trace and maintain their graves. A second edition was published in 2002 and a third in 2007.	view