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Ussher, Thomas & Mills, Nelson. Napoleon Banished: The Journeys to Elba and to St. Helena Recorded in the Letters and Journal of Two British Naval Officers, Captain Thomas Ussher and Lt. Nelson Mills. Miniature Books Series. London: Rodale, 1955, 44 pp.
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Ussher, Thomas. Narrative of Events Connected with the First Abdication of the Emperor Napoleon, His Embarkation at Frejus and Voyage to Elba. . . . Dublin: Grant & Bolton, 1841, 100 pp.
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Vaeth, Joseph Gordon. Blimps and U-Boats: U.S. Navy Airships in the Battle of the Atlantic. Annapolis: NIP, 1992, ix, 205 pp. Experience of Fleet Airships Command.
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Vaeth, Joseph Gordon. Graf Zeppelin: The Adventures of an Aerial Globetrotter. New York: Harper, 1958, 235 pp.
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Vaeth, Joseph Gordon. To the Ends of the Earth: The Explorations of Roald Amundsen. New York: Harper, 1962, 219 pp.
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Valdadisco, Jesus M. "Spanish Shipowners in the British Minor: Patterns of Invesgment, Ownership and Finance in the Bilbao Shipping Industry, 1879-1913." IJ Mar His, 5 (December 1993): 1-30.
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Vale, Brian, ed. Memoirs of a Fighting Captain: Admiral Lord Cochrane, Admiral of the Red, Rear Admrial of the Fleet. London: Folio Society, 2005, 344 pp. Memoir.
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Vale, Brian. A Frigate of King George: Life and Duty on a British Man-of-War, 1807-1829. London: I.B. Tauris; New York: Palgrave, 2001, xii, 204 pp. HMS Doris, 36 guns; 4-year commission, 1820s, model for peacetime duties of RN; traced career of officers.
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Vale, Brian. A War Betwixt Englishmen: Brazil against Argentina on the River Plate, 1825-1830. London: Tauris; New York: St. Martin, 2000, xi, 275 pp. Cisplatine War; competition over control of Plate River estuary; British officers prominent: 1/3 Brazil, 2/3s Argentina; Brazil (blue-water) vs. Argentina (coastal); stalemate.
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Vale, Brian. Cochrane: The Audacious Admiral: The True Life of a Naval Legend. London: Conway, 2004, 240 pp. Noted flawed memoir & early biographies; model for Marrayat, Forester, O'Brian.
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Vale, Brian. "Lord Cochrane in Brazil: Prize Money, Politics and Rebellion, 1824-1825." MM, 59 (May 1973): 135-59. Controversy; demand for prize money; complications.
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Vale, Brian. "Lord Cochrane in Brazil: The Naval War of Independence, 1823." MM, 57 (November 1971): 415-42.
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Vale, Brian. "The Conquest of Scurvy in the Royal Navy, 1793-1800: A Challenge to Current Orthodoxy." MM, 94 (May 2005): 160-75. Conclusion: more important than Lind, decisive were decisions by admirals in the field; some delays due to shortage of citrus juice.
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Vale, Brian. "The Creation of the Imperial Brazilian Navy, 1822-1823." MM, 57 (January 1971): 63-88. Key was foreign officers & sailors, e.g., Cochrane, other foreign officers, 200 British seamen.
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Vale, Malcolm Graham Allan. "Edward I and the French: Rivalry and Chivalry." See P. Coss, Thirteenth-Century England, pp. 165-76.
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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 Libraries (Dissertations & Master's Theses) |
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 | Proceedings of the Naval Institute |
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 |