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GREAT BRITAIN. Ministry of Information. East of Malta, West of Suez: The Admiralty Account of the Naval War in the Eastern Mediterranean, September 1939 to March 1941. 63p., illus. London: HMSO, 1943; Boston: Little Brown, 1944.
An official account of the great days of the sea war against Italy, most notably the attack on Taranto and the Battle of Matapan. The US edition is credited to Bartimeus. The US edition is credited to Bartimeus. A new edition was published in 2001 by Uncovered Editions: The War Facsimiles (ISBN: 0117025380).
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The Battle for the Mediterranean; The War against the Italians;
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JOHNSTON, George H. Grey Gladiator: HMAS Sydney with the British Mediterranean Fleet. xvi, 183p., illus. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1941.Really the story of the naval war in the Mediterranean from June 1940 until January 1941, as seen by and from Sydney. Published in the UK by Gollancz as Lioness of the Seas and in the US in 1942 by Houghton Mifflin as Action at Sea: The Saga of the Sydney. Reprinted in Australia by Pacific Books in 1971.
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The Battle for the Mediterranean; The War against the Italians;
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McGUIRE, Paul, & McGUIRE, Frances. The Price of Admiralty. xiv, 328p., illus., index. Melbourne: OUP, 1944.The war of the Australian sloop Parramatta and of her captain, Commander J. H. Walker, much of it poignantly told through letters to his wife. The ship’s career lasted little over a year, full of unremitting and unglamorous work in the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, before she was sunk off Bardia.
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PACK, S. W. C. The Battle of Sirte (Sea Battles in Close Up, 15). 144p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Ian Allan; Annapolis: NIP, 1975. ISBN: 0711005966.A description of both battles of Sirte, but mainly the second, where Vian skilfully drove off the stronger Italian Fleet.
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The Battle for the Mediterranean; The War against the Italians;
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SMITH, Peter C. Action Imminent. 352p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Kimber, 1980. ISBN: 071830277X.A detailed review of three actions in the Mediterranean in 1940 and of Churchill’s intervention in each case; the Battle of Calabria; the passage through the Straits by a French cruiser squadron and the Battle of Spartivento. Republished by Seaforth in 2011 as Critical Conflict (ISBN: 9781848845138.)
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The Battle for the Mediterranean; The War against the Italians;
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GREAT BRITAIN. Admiralty. The Royal Navy and the Mediterranean (Whitehall Histories: Naval Staff Histories). 2 vols., illus., index. London: Frank Cass, 2002. ISBN: 0714651796 (V.1); 0714652059 (V.2).
These confidential volumes were prepared by the Naval Historical Branch for internal use in 1952 and are published in facsimile for the first time. Volume 1 covers September 1939 to October 1940 and volume 2 covers November 1940 to December 1941. There is a new introduction by David Brown.
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The Battle for the Mediterranean; The War against the Italians;
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ST CLAIR, Adrian. Mediterranean Minefield: Disaster of HMS Neptune, The Sinking of HM Ships Neptune and Kandahar. The Fifth Worst Loss of Life in a Royal Navy Ship in WWII. The Mediterranean Force K, Inclusive of HM Ships Aurora, Penelope, Lance, Lively, Havock. December 19th and 20th 1941. A Pictorial Tribute. 96p., bibliog., illus. [n.p.]: Neptune Association, 2005.
Largely consists of pictures and one or two sentence accounts of the eight hundred and thirty-six officers and men lost in the sinkings. An enlarged second edition was published in 2010 (ISBN: 0955038715). This includes a separate photographic supplement.
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The Battle for the Mediterranean; The War against the Italians; Cruisers;
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HOLLAND, James. Italy’s Sorrow: A Year of War, 1944-1945. Xlv, 606p., bibliog., illus., index. London: HarperPress, 2008. ISBN: 9780007176458.
A further volume of Holland’s excellent series. Has some marginal naval interest.
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Abbreviations | |
AHR | American Historical Review |
Alb | Albion |
alt | alternate |
Am Nep | American Neptune |
AQ & DJ | Army Quarterly and Defence Journal |
ASLIB | Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux |
BIHR | Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research |
Can His Rev | Canadian Historical Review |
Can J His | Canadian Journal of History |
comp | Compiled by |
DAI | Dissertation Abstracts International |
EcHR | Economic History Review |
ed | editor or edited by |
EnHR | English Historical Review |
HisAHR | Hispanic American Historical Review |
HJ | Historical Journal (Cambridge Historical Journal) |
His Res | Historical Research |
His Tod | History Today |
Intell & Nat Sec | Intelligence and National Security |
IJ Mar His | International Journal of Maritime History |
IJ Nau Arch | International Journal of Nautical Archaeology |
IHR | International History Review |
intro | introduction |
J Am His | Journal of American History |
J Asian His | Journal of Asian History |
JBS | Journal of British Studies |
J Cont His | Journal of Contemporary History |
J Econ His | Journal of Economic History |
JI & CH | Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History |
J Mar Res | Journal for Maritime Research |
J Mil His | Journal of Military History |
J Mod His | Journal of Modern History |
JRUSI | Journal of the Royal United Service Institution or Institute |
J Soc His | Journal of Social History |
JSAHR | Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research |
J Stra Stu | Journal of Strategic Studies |
J Trans His | Journal of Transport History |
J Wor His | Journal of World History |
MM | Mariner's Mirror |
Mil Aff | Military Affairs |
NHS | Naval History Symposium (USNA) |
NMM | National Maritime Museum |
Nav Rev | Naval Review |
NWCR | Naval War College Review (US) |
Nel Dis | Nelson Dispatch |
NIP | Naval Institute Press |
Nor Mar | Northern Mariner |
Pac His Rev | Pacific Historical Review |
P & P | Past and Present |
Traf Chron | Trafalgar Chronicle |
trans | translated by |
UP | University Press |
USNIP | United States Naval Institute Press |
Vic Stu | Victorian Studies |
War & Soc | War and Society |
War in His | War in History |
W&MQ | William and Mary Quarterly |
WSS | World Ship Society |
RFA | Royal Fleet Auxiliary |
NIP | Naval Institute Press |
RAN | Royal Australian Navy |