| Name: | Gooseberries, Mulberries and PLUTO |
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Documents: 13
| 1078 | ELLSBERG, Edward. The Far Shore. 381p., illus. New York: Dodd Mead, 1960; London: Gibbs & Phillips, 1961.
The continuing memoirs of the author which recount his involvement with Mulberry Harbours and the D-Day landings. |
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| 1079 | EVANS, J., PALMER, E., & WALTER, R. A Harbour Goes to War: The Story of Mulberry and the Men who Made it Happen. xviii, 173p., bibliog., illus., index. Oxford: Brook House for South Machars Historical Society, 2000. ISBN: 1873547307.
A locally published account of how the ports and bays of Galloway were used in their creation. |
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| 1080 | HARRISON, Michael. Mulberry: The Return in Triumph. 286p., bibliog., illus., index. London: W. H. Allen, 1965.
A full history of the artificial harbours which were so important to the success of D-Day. |
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| 1081 | HARTCUP, Guy. Code Name Mulberry: The Planning, Building and Operation of the Normandy Harbours. 160p., bibliog., illus., index. Newton Abbot: David & Charles; New York: Hippocrene, 1977. ISBN: 0715373889
The subtitle reveals all. |
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| 1082 | HUGHES, Mark. Conwy Mulberry Harbour. 75p., illus. Llanrwst: Carreg Gwalch, 2001. ISBN: 0863817572.
A local history which covers construction work on Mulberry Harbour components in this part of Wales. |
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| 1083 | JAMES, Mark. D-Day Wrecks of Normandy. 192p., illus., index. Derby: [author], 1997. ISBN: 0953185605.
A divers' guide with good accounts of the ships and how they came to be sunk. An unusual but useful reference guide. |
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| 1084 | McGIVERN, Cecil. The Harbour Called Mulberry: The Story of the Harbour That Sailed to France on June 6, 1944, Dramatised for Radio. 44p., illus. London: Pendulum, 1945.
The text of a radio broadcast explaining the great feat. |
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| 1085 | MURCHIE, A.T. The Mulberry Harbour Project in Wigtownshire 1942-1944 (The Local History series, No. 4). 63p., illus. Wigtown: G.C. Book Publishers, 1993. ISBN: 1872350623.
A well illustrated and detailed account of the development and assembly of the Spuds, Swiss Rolls and Hippos which went into the development of Mulberry. A second edition was published in 1999. |
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| 1086 | RICHMOND, Ray. Mulberry Harbour: D-Day 1944 (Monograph 118). 19p., bibliog., illus. Garden Island: Naval Historical Society of Australia, 1989.
A good general introduction to their use. |
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| 1087 | SEARLE, Adrian. PLUTO: Pipe-Line Under the Ocean. The Definitive Story. 128p., bibliog., illus., index. Shanklin: Shanklin Cline, 1995. ISBN: 0952587602.
The story of an apparently preposterous notion turned into engineering reality to create a seventy mile pipeline to supply fuel after the Normandy landings but before a port had been captured. A revised second edition was published in 2004 . |
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| 1089 | TAYLOR, J. E. The Last Passage. 137p., illus. London: Allen & Unwin, 1946.
The story of the Gooseberries or blockships used in the Mulberry Harbours, by the officer in charge. |
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| 1090 | TAYLOR, John P. The Pre-fabricated Port of Arromanches ("Mulberry B"). [ii], 37p., illus. London: Shipbuilding and Shipping Record, [1945].
A largely technical account of its construction operation and effect, which originally appeared as an article in the Shipbuilding and Shipping Record. |
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| 1088 | STANFORD, Alfred B. Force Mulberry: The Planning and Installation of the Artificial Harbor off US Normandy Beaches in World War II. 240p., illus., index. New York: Morrow, 1951. An honest but early account which describes this enormous technical achievement. Republished by Whitehead Books in 2007, ISBN: 9781406706086 |
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