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Abbazia, Patrick. Mr. Roosevelt's Navy: The Private War of the United States Atlantic Fleet, 1939-1942. Annapolis: NIP, 1975, xii, 520 pp. Scholarly analysis; series of incidents.

Keywords:

20th century, twentieth, Battle of the Atlantic, anti-submarine warfare, Royal Navy, United States Navy, US Navy , anti-submarine warfare, submarine, U-boat, ASW, sonar , world war 2, second world war, united states navy, US navy, american president

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Abbott, John Stevens Cabot. The Life and Adventures of Rear-Admiral John Paul Jones, Commonly Called Paul Jones. New York: Dodd Mead, 1872, 1874, 359 pp.

Keywords:

Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Jones, John Paul, united states navy, US navy

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Agawa, Hiroyuki. The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy. Tokyo: Kodansha; New York: Harper; New York: Hill & Wang, 1965, 1979, 1992, 397 pp. Trans: John Bester; Yamamoto, 1884-1943, early service in the U.S. & Britain; the most authoritative Japanese biography.

Keywords:

Anglo-Japanese, Japan , Far East, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Royal Navy, Britain, England, officer, quarterdeck, leader , personality, prominent leader, noted person , united states navy, US navy, world war 2, second world war, interwar

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Albion, Robert Greenhalgh & Pope, Jennie Barnes. Sea Lanes in Wartime: The American Experience, 1775-1942. New York: Norton; London: Allen & Unwin; Hamden: Archon, 1942, 1943, 1968, 367 pp.

Keywords:

18th century, eighteenth, 19th century, nineteenth, 20th century, twentieth, commerce, trade, business, sea power, strategy, strategic, trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing, united states navy, US navy, world war 1, first world war, world war 2, second world war

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Albion, Robert Greenhalgh. Makers of Naval Policy, 1798-1947. Annapolis: NIP, 1948, 1980, x, 737 pp. Ed: Rowena Reed; official administrative history of U.S. Navy; comprehensive & critical; written in 1948 but not published until 1980.

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18th century, eighteenth, 19th century, nineteenth, 20th century, twentieth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, age of sail, age of steam, Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, sea power, strategy, strategic, united states navy, US navy

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Alden, John Doughty. Flush Decks and Four Pipes. Sea Power Monographs Series, # 2. Annapolis: NIP, 1965, 1989, 112 pp. Over 100 illustrations; 347 destroyers listed; 50 to G.B. in destroyers for bases deal; as Town Class in G.B.

Keywords:

20th century, twentieth, Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, destroyer, torpedo boat destroyer, anti-submarine warfare vessel , diplomacy, treaty, foreign policy, Foreign Office, negotiation, international relations , world war 2, second world war, united states navy, US navy, Royal Navy, Britain, England, Special Relationship, Anglo-American relation, England, Britain, America, United States, US, USA, ship, boat, vessel

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Alden, John Doughty. U.S. Submarine Attacks during World War II: Including Allied Submarine Attacks in the Pacific Theater. Annapolis: NIP, 1989, 320 pp. Included British & Dutch submarines in the Far East; full chonological listing, Pacific & Atlantic; confirmation by Japanese sources.

Keywords:

Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, Anglo-German, Germany, Prussia , Anglo-Japanese, Japan , anti-submarine warfare, submarine, ASW, sonar , Battle of the Atlantic, U-boat, anti-submarine warfare, Royal Navy, United States Navy, US Navy , Royal Navy, Britain, England, naval guide, regulation, guideline, instruction , submarine, underwater vessel, submerged operation, united states navy, US navy, U-boat, submarine, German underwater warship , world war 2, second world war, Royal Australian Navy, Australia , Royal Canadian Navy, Canada , Far East, East Asia, Southeast Asia

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Alderman, Clifford Lindsey. Wooden Ships and Iron Men. New York: Walker, 1964, 134 pp. Nautical fiction; juvenile literature; young English sailor, thence to American navy during War of 1812; based on Samuel Leech, 1798-1848.

Keywords:

age of sail, condition, life below deck, lower deck, atmosphere, enlisted life , juvenile literature, children's, junior, nautical fiction, sea fiction , Royal Navy, Britain, England, War of 1812, Anglo-American war, England, Britain, America, United States, US, USA, impressment, battle, frigate action, campaign, blockade , united states navy, US navy, ship, boat, vessel, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography

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Alexander, Joseph H. & Bartlett, Merrill L. Sea Soldiers in the Cold War: Amphibious Warfare, 1945-1991. Annapolis: NIP, 1995, xi, 220 pp. Operational history, e.g., Korea, Falklands, Middle East.

Keywords:

amphibious, invasion from sea, landing, attack from sea, landing craft, Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, cold war, commando, guerrilla warfare, Royal Marine , Falkland, Malvenas, Malvinas, island, colony, campaign, war, battle of First World War , Korea, war, Korean War, Cold War , Middle East, Royal Navy, Britain, England, united states navy, US navy

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Alexander, Joseph H. Fleet Operations in a Mobile War: September 1950-June 1951. Washington: Naval Historical Center, 2001, 53 pp. Author-expert on amphibious warfare; operations in Korean War.

Keywords:

amphibious, invasion from sea, landing, attack from sea, landing craft, invasion, armada, landing , Korea, war, Korean War, Cold War , united states navy, US navy, Royal Navy, Britain, England

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Allard, Dean C. "A U.S. Overview." See S. Howarth, Battle of the Atlantic, pp. 567-75.

Keywords:

Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, Battle of the Atlantic, U-boat, anti-submarine warfare, Royal Navy, United States Navy, US Navy , anti-submarine warfare, submarine, ASW, sonar , Royal Navy, Britain, England, united states navy, US navy, world war 2, second world war

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Allard, Dean C. "Admiral William S. Sims and United States Naval Policy in World War I." Am Nep, 35 (April 1975): 97-110. Former Director, Naval Historical Center, Washington, DC; Sims was commander of U.S. naval forces to Europe, 1st World War.

Keywords:

Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, Anglo-German, Germany, Prussia , Royal Navy, Britain, England, united states navy, US navy, world war 1, first world war

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Allard, Dean C. "Anglo-American Naval Differences during World War I." Mil Aff, 44 (April 1980): 75-81. Cooperation & differences among allies.

Keywords:

Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, critique of Royal Navy, criticism, analysis, critical analysis, controversy, Royal Navy, Britain, England, strategy, strategic, united states navy, US navy, world war 1, first world war

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Allard, Dean C. "Introduction: Anglo-American Assessment." See T. Runyan, To Die Gallantly, pp. xvii-xxvi. Post-Cold War assessment.

Keywords:

Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, anti-submarine warfare, submarine, ASW, sonar , Battle of the Atlantic, U-boat, anti-submarine warfare, Royal Navy, United States Navy, US Navy , diplomacy, treaty, foreign policy, Foreign Office, negotiation, international relations , Royal Navy, Britain, England, united states navy, US navy, world war 2, second world war

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Alldritt, Keith. The Greatest of Friends: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, 1941-1945. New York: St. Martin; London: Hale, 1995, 224 pp. Focused on psychological & social aspects of relationship; both "former naval persons."

Keywords:

Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, Royal Navy, Britain, England, Special Relationship, Anglo-American relation, England, Britain, America, United States, US, USA, united states navy, US navy, world war 2, second world war, personality, prominent leader, noted person , Churchill, Winston, First Lord, Prime Minister, War Minister

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Allen, Gardner Weld. Operations against the French, 1798-1800. Boston: Houghton Mifflin; Hamden: Archon, 1909, 1967, xii, 323 pp. Alt. title: Our Naval War with France; in series, U.S. Navy.

Keywords:

18th century, eighteenth, Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, Anglo-French, France , battles, united states navy, US navy, trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing, diplomacy, treaty, foreign policy, Foreign Office, negotiation, international relations

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Allen, Gardner Weld. Our Navy and the Barbary Corsairs. Boston: Houghton Mifflin; Hamden: Archon, 1905, 1965, xiii, 354 pp. U.S. Navy.

Keywords:

19th century, nineteenth, age of sail, Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, Barbary, pirate, corsair, Mediterranean, North Africa , Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean theater, Mediterranean command , battles, united states navy, US navy, piracy, privateering, pirate, buccaneer

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Allen, Thomas B. & Polmar, Norman. Rickover: Father of the Nuclear Navy. Military Profile Series. Dulles: Potomac, 2007, xvi, 103 pp. Hyman J. Rickover.

Keywords:

20th century, twentieth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, nuclear , personality, prominent leader, noted person , propulsion , Royal Navy, Britain, England, united states navy, US navy, submarine, underwater vessel, submerged operation, ship, boat, vessel

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Allin, Lawrence Carroll. "The United States Naval Institute Intellectual Forum of the New Navy, 1873-1889." Ph.D. diss, Maine, Orono, 1976.

Keywords:

20th century, twentieth, association, society, group, organization, organisation, conference, conference paper, symposium, naval lore, tradition, oral tradition, sea story, sea term, naval dictionary , nautical fiction, sea fiction , united states navy, US navy

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

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