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The Sinking of the Belgrano The Sinking of the Belgrano Arthur L. Gavshon “The SINKING Of The BELGRANO” By Desmond Rice and Arthur Gavshon. Launched March 12, 1938 the USS Phoenix (CL-46) was at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The Brooklyn-class cruiser managed to get un… OL127439W
My Sea Lady My Sea Lady Graeme Ogden A remarkable wartime memoir, unusually personal and frank, chronicling the bleak and arduous journeys onboard an anti-submarine trawler in the Arctic ocean during World War II Graeme Ogden's memoi… OL139322W
WW1 at Sea WW1 at Sea Victoria Carolan Images of WWI in the popular consciousness normally involve the bloody attrition of trench warfare, the miles of mud, the shattered earth, the tangled miles of barbed wire. However there was another … OL15174866W
The Secret Channel The Secret Channel Mike Williams This thrilling fictional account is based on true events. Mike Williams, a surviving member of the SBO, has created characters that live on the page and brilliantly evoke the dangerous waters and des… OL15178855W
The Flowing Tide The Flowing Tide Alan Savage With France having fallen, by 1941 the Germans control every French port, turning the English Channel into a battleground where vast numbers of German Schnell-boats frequently clash horns with the ha… OL15291285W
Bismarck Bismarck Niklas Zetterling 320 pages : 24 cm OL15527529W
Citizen sailors Citizen sailors Glyn Prysor From the Battle of Dunkirk to the sinking of the Bismark and Scharnhorst, "Citizen Sailors" is the first definitive history of the Royal Navy in WWII. Drawing on hundreds of contemporary diaries and … OL16558842W
Beyond the Call of Duty Beyond the Call of Duty Brian James Crabb BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY This book gives a critical account of every shipping disaster during the Second World War which involved the loss of British Commonwealth mercantile and service women. Just… OL16819063W
Girl On The Orlop Deck Girl On The Orlop Deck Beryl Kingston She will find her husband, even if it means enlisting… Portsmouth, 1803. The British Navy headed by Lord Admiral Nelson himself are in pursuit of Johnny Frenchman. For months, there have been r… OL17467751W
The Dardanelles disaster The Dardanelles disaster Dan Van der Vat A naval historian describes the British Navy's disastrous attempt to get to Constantinople through the Dardanelles, and analyzes Winston Churchill's response to the obstacles faced during the operati… OL17739411W
Zanzibar and the loss of H.M.S. Pegasus Zanzibar and the loss of H.M.S. Pegasus Kevin Patience An illustrated story of the British Royal Navy cruiser HMS Pegasus and its loss at Zanzibar in September 1914 after being shelled by the German cruiser Konigsberg. OL1790815W
Exploring the Bismarck Exploring the Bismarck Robert D. Ballard Recreates the sea battle that sank the German battleship Bismarck in World War II and recounts how the shipwreck was discovered in 1989. OL1805552W
Dunkirk Dunkirk Robert Jackson By late May 1940 the German Army had raced across Northern France cutting the Allied armies in two. The British Expeditionary Force ,and thousands of French and Belgian soldiers, found themselves squ… OL1843280W
Half a Man Half a Man Tor Freeman,Michael Morpurgo,Gemma O'Callaghan From a young age, Michael was both fascinated by and afraid of his grandfather. Grandpa's ship was torpedoed during the Second World War, leaving him with terrible burns. Every time he came to stay, … OL19338718W
Sink the Bismarck! Sink the Bismarck! C. S. Forester In 1941, Hitler’s deadly Bismarck, the fastest battleship afloat, broke out into the Atlantic. Its mission: to cut the lifeline of British shipping and win the war with one might blow. How the Royal … OL1937746W
The sunken gold The sunken gold Joseph A. Williams On January 25, 1917, HMS Laurentic struck two German mines off the coast of Ireland and sank. The ship was carrying 44 tons of gold bullion to the still-neutral United States via Canada in order to f… OL19719721W
Into the jaws of death Into the jaws of death Robert Lyman "It is the night of 28 March 1942. Royal Navy and British commandos are poised to assault the German-held port of Saint-Nazaire in what will be one of the most audacious and daring raids of the Secon… OL21376535W
On and off the flight deck On and off the flight deck Henry Adlam "We had seen enough now to know that we would be lucky, either one of us, to see the end of the war and the future was always a taboo subject with any of us."Hank Adlam began his naval flying career … OL21730400W
From Versailles to Mers el-Kébir From Versailles to Mers el-Kébir George E. Melton "This book concerns itself with one of the most unlikely relationships in the two decades before World War II: the alliance of the Royal Navy and the French fleet. By the mid 1930s, both fleets had o… OL22316972W
Champagne navy Champagne navy Nolan, Brian. Champagne Navy is the story of men driven by survival and patriotism. The Canadians in the Royal Navy's Coastal Force helped defend the free world from Nazi tyranny and taught the rest of the world h… OL2431821W
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