Centre for Maritime Historical Studies
Derek Law Bibliography
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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.
Categories:
The Battle for the Mediterranean; The War against the Italians;
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