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Merchant Marine in WWII and Battle of the Atlantic
Albion, Robert Greenhalgh and Pope, Jennie Barnes. Sea Lanes in Wartime - The American Experience 1775-1945 2nd edition. New York: W. W. Norton, Archon Books, 1968
______.The American merchant marine in the war. New York: American Merchant Marine Institute, Inc., 1943
Armstrong, Warren. The Battle of the Oceans, The Story of the British Merchant Marine. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1944
Arnold, J. Barto III, et al. Texas' Liberty Ships: From World War II Working-class Heroes to Artificial Reefs. Austin, Texas: Texas Parks and Wildlife Bulletin No. 99-1, 1998
Blair, Clay. Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunted. 1942-1945. New York: Random House, 1998
Blair, Clay. Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunters, 1939-1942. New York: Random House, 1996
Boyne, Walter J. Clash of Titans: World War II at Sea. New York: simon & Schuster, 1995
Brennecke, Hans Joachim, translated by R.H. Stevens. Jäger-Gejagte! The hunters and the hunted. New York: Norton, 1958
Bunker, John. Heroes in Dungarees: The Story of the American Merchant Marine in World War II. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1995 Book Review
Burn, Alan. The Fighting Commodores: The Convoy Commanders in the Second World War. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1999
Callison, Brian. A Flock of Ships. New York: Putnam,1970 [Story of mysterious disappearance of convoy of ships during World War II]
Carse, Robert. Lifeline. New York: W.W. Morrow & Co., 1943
Carse, Robert. The Long Haul. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1965
Carse, Robert. There Go The Ships: The Story of the American Merchant Marine at War. New York: Garden City Publishing Co., 1943
Cheatham, James T. The Atlantic Turkey Shoot: U-Boats Off the Outer Banks in World War II. Charlotte, North Carolina: Delmar Printing Company 1992
Chewning, Alpheus J. The Approaching Storm: U-boats off the Virginia Coast During World War II. Lively, VA: Brandylane Publishers, 1994
Churchill, Winston. The Second World War. 2 Volumes. New York: Time Incorporated. 1959
Cocchia, Aldo, translated by M. Gwyer. Sommergibili all'attacco. The hunters and the hunted: adventures of Italian naval forces. New York: Arno Press, 1958, 1980
_______. Convoys in World War II. Washington, DC: Navy Dept. Library, 1993
Crane, Aimee. Art in the armed forces. New York: Hyperion Press, distributed by C. Scribner's Sons, 1944
Cressman, Robert J. The Official Chronology of the U. S. Navy in World War II. Annapolis MD: Naval Institute Press, 2000
Creswell, John. Sea warfare, 1939-1945; a short history. London: Longmans, Green, 1950
Dunmore, Spencer. In Great Waters: The Epic Story of the Battle of the Atlantic, 1939 - 1945. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1999
Dupuy, Trevor Nevitt. The Naval War in the West: The Raiders. New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1963
Dupuy, Trevor Nevitt. The Naval War in the West: The Wolfpacks. New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1963
Easton, Alan. 50 North, An Atlantic Battleground. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1963
Edwards, Bernard. Attack & Sink. Brick Tower Press, 1995 [Battle for Convoy SC42 which lasted for 7 days and 1,200 miles of ocean. The true story of U-571.]
Edwards, Kenneth. Operation Neptune. London: Collins, 1946
Elliot, Peter. Allied Escort ships of World War II: A Complete Survey. Annapolis MD: Naval Institute Press, 1977
Felknor, Bruce L. (Editor) The U.S. Merchant Marine at War, 1775-1945. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1998 Book Review
Gannon, Michael. Operation Drumbeat - The dramatic true story of Germany's first U-Boat attacks along the American Coast in World War II. New York: Harper & Row,1990 [Well written, gives a clear picture of the odds faced by the unarmed Merchant Marine against the U-Boat.]
Giesler, Patricia. The Battle of the Atlantic. Ottawa: Veteran Affairs Canada, 2000
Giesler, Patricia. Valour at Sea. Ottawa: Veteran Affairs Canada, 1998
Gretton, Peter. Convoy Escort Commander. London: Cassell, 1964
Grove, Eric J. (Editor). The Defeat of the enemy attack on shipping, 1939-1945. Aldershot, Hant ; Brookfield, VT: Ashgate for the Navy Records Society, 1997
Hadley, Michael L. U-Boats Against Canada: German Submarines in Canadian Waters. McGill-Queen's University Press, 1985
Hague Arnold. The Allied Convoy System 1939-1945: Its Organization, Defence and Operation. Annapolis MD: Naval Institute Press, 2000
Hague, Arnold. Convoy Rescue Ships: 1940-1945. Gravesend, Great Britain: World Ship Society, 1998
Harding, Duncan. Tug of War. London: Furura Publications Limited, 1979
Hardy, A. C. Everyman's History of the Sea War (Three Volumes). London: Nicholson and Watson. 1948, 1949, 1955
Heneghan, Chris. Battle of the Atlantic - 50th Anniversary (1943-1993). Editor, Liverpool: Brodie Publishing 1993
NEW! Herbert, Brian. The Forgotten Heroes: The Heroic Story of the United States Merchant Marine. New York, NY: A Forge Book published by Tom Doherty Associates, 2004 Book Review
Hickam, Homer H., Jr. Torpedo Junction: U-Boat War off America's East Coast, 1942. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1989 (available in paperback from Dell Publishing) Book Review
Hough, Richard. the Greatest Crusade: Roosevelt, Chrurchill, and the Naval Wars. The Maritime Aspects of Both World Wars as Personified in the Friendship of Two Men. New York: William Morrow, 1986
Hough, Richard. The Longest Battle: The War at Sea, 1939-45. New York: William Morrow, 1986
Hoyt, Edwin P. The Death of the U-Boats. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1988
Hoyt, Edwin P. U-Boats Offshore - When Hitler Struck America. New York: Stein & Day, 1978
Hughes, Terry and Costello, John The Battle of the Atlantic. New York: Dial Press,1977
Hurst, David A. The United States Merchant Marine. Paducah, KY: Turner Publishing Company, 1993 [P.O. Box 3101 Paducah, KY 42002-3101, Ph. (502)443-0121.The cost of the original book was $48 each and 13 or more books for $29 each]
Ingraham, Reg. First Fleet, the Story of the U.S. Coast Guard at War. Indianapolis, Indiana: Bobbs-Merrill,1944
Jones, Geoffrey. Autumn of the U-Boats, London: William Kimber, 1984
Kaplan, Philip. Convoy: Merchant Sailors at War, 1939-1945. U.S. Naval Institute Press, 1998
Karig, Walter and Kelley, Welbourne et al. Battle Report (5 Volumes): Pearl Harbor to Coral Sea, The Atlantic War, Pacific War Middle Phase, The End of an Empire, Victory in the Pacific. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1944-1949
Kemp, Paul. A Pictorial History of the Sea War 1939-1945. London: Brockhampton Press, 1998
Kemp, Peter. Decision at Sea: The Convoy Escorts. New York: Elsevier-Dutton, 1978
Land, Emory Scott. Winning the War With Ships: Land, Sea and Air -- Mostly Land. New York: Robert M. McBride Co. Inc., 1958
Lott, Arnold. Most Dangerous Sea: A history of Mine Warfare, and an Account of U. S. Navy Mine Warfare Operations in World War II and Korea. Annapolis MD: U. S. Naval Institute, 1959
Macintyre, Donald. Battle of the Atlantic. London: Pan Books, 1969
Macintyre, Donald. U-Boat Killer. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1956 [Personal account of British commander of Escort Groups during the Battle of the Atlantic]
Mason, Frank W. Q-Boat. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1943. [The Story Of The Convoy Fleet And Coastal Patrol During World War II]
Masters, David. In Peril on the Sea: War Exploits Of Allied Seamen. London: Cresset Press, 1960
Mercey, Arch A. and Grove, Lee. Surf and Hell: The U. S. Coast Guard in World War II, New York: Prentice-Hall, 1946
Miller, Nathan. War at Sea - A Naval History of World War II. New York: Scribner, 1995
Milner, Marc. The North Atlantic Run: The Royal Canadian Navy and the Battle for the Convoys. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1989
Milner, Marc. The U-boat Hunters: the Royal Canadian Navy and the offensive against Germany's submarines, 1943-1945. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1994
Mitchell, C. Bradford. We'll Deliver: Early History of the United States Merchant Marine Academy, 1938-1956. Kings Point, New York: U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Alumni Association, 1977
Morison, Samuel Eliot. History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II, Vol. I, Battle of the Atlantic, September 1939-May 1943. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1947 [Morison was the official Navy Historian; gives good descriptions of Convoy PQ17 and other action, but whitewashes the Navy's inadequate response to the slaughter of mariners in the Atlantic and the loss of vital cargo.]
Morison, Samuel Eliot. History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II, Vol. X, The Atlantic Battle Won, May 1943-May 1945. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1959
Natkiel, Richard, text by Sommer, Robin L. Atlas of World War II. New York, Barnes & Noble Books, 1985
Nesbit, Roy Conyers. The Battle of the Atlantic. Stroud, United Kingdom: Alan Sutton, 2002
O'Flaherty, S. J. Abandoned Convoy: The U.S. Merchant Marine in World War II. New York, Exposition, 1970
______. Oxford Companion to WORLD WAR II. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995
Palmer, M. B. We Fight With Merchant Ships. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1943
Pattinson, James. Last in Convoy. New York: Berkley Books, 1957 [Account of a doomed vessels voyage through torpedo infested waters]
Piekalkeiwicz, Janusz, translated by Peter Spurgeon. Sea War 1939-1945. London: Tek Translation & International Print Ltd., 1980
Pitt, Barrie. The Battle of the Atlantic. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1977
Rayner, D. A. Escort - The Battle of the Atlantic. London: William Kimber, 1955
Reminick, Gerald. Patriots and Heroes:True Stories of the U.S. Merchant Marine in World War II. Palo Alto, CA: Glencannon Press Maritime Books, 2000 Book Review
Reminick, Gerald. Patriots and Heroes:True Stories of the U.S. Merchant Marine in World War II. Volume 2. Palo Alto, CA: Glencannon Press Maritime Books, 2004 Book Review
Riesenberg, Felix Jr. Sea War: The Story of the U.S. Merchant Marine in World War II. New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc., 1956
Robertson, Terence. Escort Commander. New York: Nelson Doubleday Inc. 1979 [The story of WWII German U-Boat killer British Captain Frederic Walker]
Rohwer, Jurgen. War at Sea, 1939-1945. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1996
Runyan, Timothy J. and Copes, Jan M. (Editors).To Die Gallantly: The Battle of the Atlantic. Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1994
Smith, Kevin. Conflict over Convoys: Anglo-American Logistics Diplomacy in World War Two. Great Britain: Cambridge University Press, 1996
Spector, Ronald H. At War at Sea: Sailors and Naval Combat in the Twentieth Century. New York: Viking, 2001
Stettinius, Edward R. Jr. Lend-Lease: Weapon for Victory. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1944
______. Submarine menace, Executive hearing before the Committee on the merchant marine and fisheries, 1942. United States Congress, House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Washington: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1942
Syrett, David (Editor). The Battle of the Atlantic and Signals Intelligence : U-boat situations and trends, 1941-1945. Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt., : Published by Ashgate for the Navy Records Society, 1998
Syrett, David. Defeat of the German U-Boats: The Battle of the Atlantic. Columbia SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1994
Tarrant, V. E. The U-Boat Offensive 1914-1945. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1989
Taylor, Theodore. Fire on the Beaches. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1958 [Well written. Interesting stories about the panic along the Coasts and casualties among mariners.]
Terraine, John. Business in great waters: the U-boat wars, 1916-1945. London: L. Cooper, 1989
Thomas, David A. The Atlantic Star 1939-45. London: W. H. Allen, 1990. [Battle of the Atlantic]
_______, Time-Life Books Editors. War on the High Seas, Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1990
______. The U-boat War in the Atlantic, 1939-1945: German naval history, [written for] Ministry of Defence (Navy), London: H.M.S.O., 1989
_______. The United States Merchant Marine At War, Report of the War Shipping Administrator to the President. Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, January 15, 1946 Book Review
Van der Vat, Dan. The Atlantic Campaign - World War II's Great Struggle at Sea. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1988
Warnock, A. Timothy. The U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II: air power versus U-boats: confronting Hitler's submarine menace in the European theater. Air Force History and Museums Program ; Washington DC: Supt. of Docs., U.S. Government Printing Office, 1999
Warnock, A. Timothy. The U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II : the battle against the U-boat in the American Theater, Washington, DC: Center for Air Force History, 1993
Waters, John M., Jr. Bloody Winter. Princeton: Van Nostrand, 1967 [Heavy reading, but a terrific analysis of that dreadful Oct '42 to May '43 period.]
Whalen, Jim. Last of the Boom Ships, Oral Histories of the U.S. Merchant Marine 1927-2000. 1st Books Library, 2000 Available from http://www.1stbooks.com (800) 839-8640 Book Review
Whinney, Bob. The U-Boat Peril: A Fight for Survival. London: Cassell, 1998
Williams, Andrew. The Battle of the Atlantic : Hitler's Gray Wolves and the Allies' Desperate Struggle to Defeat Them. New York: Basic Books, 2003
Williams, Jay. The Battle for the Atlantic. New York: Random House, 1959
Willoughby, Malcolm F. The U.S. Coast Guard in World War II. New York: Arno Press, 1980
Wynn, Kenneth G. U-boat operations of the Second World War. Two volumes, Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1997-1998
Merchant Marine in PacificAllen, Gwenfread. Hawaii's War Years, 1941-1945. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 1950
Belote, James and Belote, William. Typhoon of Steel: The Battle for Okinawa. New York: Harper & Row, 1970
Boyd, Carl. The Japanese Submarine Force and World War II. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1996
Bridgland, Tony. Waves of Hate, Naval Atrocities of the Second World War. Yorkshire: Leo Cooper Ltd. 2002 and Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2002
Bunker, John, Heroes in Dungarees: The Story of the American Merchant Marine in World War II, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1995 Book Review
Burlingame, Burl, Advance Force Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Navy's Underwater Assault on America, Kailua, Hawaii: Pacific Monograph, 1992
Casey, Robert J. Torpedo Junction : With the Pacific Fleet from Pearl Harbor to Midway. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1942
Edwards, Bernard, Blood and Bushido: Japanese Atrocities at Sea, 1941-1945. New York: Brick Tower Press, 1997 [Ships: Langkoeas, Elysia, Ondina, Bengal, Centaur, Daisy Moller, British chivalry, Sutlej, Ascot, Behar, Nancy Moller, Tjisalak, Richard Hovey, Jean Nicolet, John A. Johnson]
Enright, Francis James, To Leave This Port, Enright Publishing Company, PO Box 158, Orick, California 95555: 1990 [SS Mauna Loa at Port Darwin]
Grover, David H., and Grover, Gretchen G., Captives of Shanghai: Story of SS President Harrison, Napa, CA: Western Maritime Press, 1999 Book Review
Inoguchi, Rikihei with Tadashi Nakajima & Roger Pineau. The Divine Wind: Japan's Kamikaze Force In World War II. Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute,1958.
Jopes, Bill with Dekeyser, Doug. A Voyage to Abadan, Xlibris Corporation, 1999 Book Review
Nielsen, Peter (editor). North Queensland at War, Volume.1. Naval and Merchant Shipping Movements (1939-1942). Townsville, Queensland, Australia: Nielsen Publishing, 2004. [Daily movements of ships on the coastal trade, carrying supplies or troops for theatres of war in the South West Pacific Area, the book includes the movements of allied warships that took part in the Battle of the Coral Sea and the comings and goings of Australian Naval Task Force.] www.northqueenslandatwar.com
Orita, Zenji and Harrington, Joseph. I-Boat Captain. Canoga Park, CA: Major Books, 1976
Reminick, Gerald. Patriots and Heroes:True Stories of the U.S. Merchant Marine in World War II. Palo Alto, CA: Glencannon Press Maritime Books, 2000 Book Review
Sowinski, Larry. Action in the Pacific: as seen by US Navy photographers during World War 2. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1981
Taylor, Theodore. Fire on the Beaches. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1958 [Well written, reads almost like a novel. Has interesting stories about the panic along the Coasts and casualties among mariners.]
Underbrink Robert. Destination Corregidor. Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute, 1971
Wallace, Robert. The Secret Battle 1942-1944; the Convoy Battle off the East Coast of Australia during World War II. Ringwood, Victoria, Australia: Lamont Publishing, 1995
Warner, Denis Ashton and Peggy Warner with Sadao Seno. The Sacred Warriors: Japan's Suicide Legions. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1982
Webber, Bert. Silent Siege: Japanese attacks against North America in World War II. Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, 1984
Specific Actions of WWII (Regions, convoys, ships sunk)
Allen, Gwenfread. Hawaii's War Years, 1941-1945. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 1950
Allen, Robert L. The Port Chicago Mutiny -- the Story of the Largest Mass Mutiny Trial in U.S. Naval History. New York: Warner Books, Inc., 1989 [Clearly written, well illustrated. The Port Chicago Disaster page was based on this book about the SS Quinault Victory and SS E. A. Bryan]
Amborski, Leonard E. The Last Voyage, Maritime Heroes of World War II, Orlando FL: FirstPublish, 2001 [Sinking of SS Stone Street]
Bassett, Ronald. The Tinfish Run. New York: Harper, 1977 [British Arctic convoy duty in WWII]
Beasant, John. Stalin's Silver: The Sinking of the USS [sic] John Barry. New York: 1999, St. Martin's Press, 1999
Bradford, Ernle. Siege: Malta 1940-1943. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom: Leo Cooper/Pen & Sword Books, 2003 and New York: William Morrow & Company, 1986
Broome, Jack. Convoy is to Scatter. London: Kimber, 1972
Bunker, John. Heroes in Dungarees: The Story of the American Merchant Marine in World War II. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1995 Book Review
Burlingame, Burl. Advance Force Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Navy's Underwater Assault on America. Kailua, Hawaii: Pacific Monograph, 1992 [West Coast and Pacific sinkings]
Cameron, Ian. Red Duster, White Ensign - The Story of Malta and the Malta Convoys. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1960
Carse, Robert. Cold Corner of Hell. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1969
Casey, Robert J. Torpedo Junction : With the Pacific Fleet from Pearl Harbor to Midway. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1942
Chelemedos, Peter. Peter, the Odyssey of a Merchant Mariner. Peanut Butter Publishing, Peter Chelemedos, PO Box 15617, Seattle, Washington 98115: 1992 [Sinking of SS John A. Johnson and MS Cape Decision]
Chewning, Alpheus J. The Approaching Storm: U-boats off the Virginia Coast During World War II. Lively, VA: Brandylane Publishers, 1994
Clayton, Tim and Craig, Phil. The End of the Beginning : From the Siege of Malta to the Allied Victory at El Alamein. New York: Free Press, 2003
Crump, Irving. Our Tanker Fleet. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1952 [Pan Massachusetts; San Demetrio; Esso Baytown; F. D. Asche; Vistula; D. L. Harper; San Alberto; Alexande Andre; Frank Haskell; Esso Zurich; Euplectella; Thorunn; E. G. Seubert; Spicer; I. C. White; Esso Baytown; George G. Henry; Fleet Oilers; Chenango; Esso New Orleans; Amastra Ancyclus Miralda Aircraft Carriers; Ondina Bengal; Esso Bolivar; Tanker Collision Delaware; Tricula; Ohio; Esso Gettysburg]
Dobson, Miller & Payne. The Cruelest Night. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1979
Donovan, James A. Outpost in the North Atlantic: Marines in the defense of Iceland. Washington, DC: Marine Corps Historical Center, 1992
Edwards, Bernard. Attack and Sink! the Battle for Convoy SC42. London: New Guild, 1995
Enright, Francis James. To Leave This Port. Enright Publishing Company, PO Box 158, Orick, California 95555: 1990 [SS Mauna Loa at Port Darwin]
Essex, James W. Victory in the St. Lawrence: Canada's Unknown War. Erin, Ontario: Boston Mills Press, 1984
Forty, George. Battle for Malta. Hersham, Surrey United Kingdom: Ian Allan Publishing, 2003
Franks, Norman. Conflict Over the Bay - Momentous Battles Fought By RAF and America Aircraft Against the U-boats, Bay of Biscay May - August 1943. London: Grub Street, 1999
Foxvog, Donald R. and Alotta, Robert I. The Last Voyage of the SS Henry Bacon. St. Paul, MN: Paragon House, 2001
Gallagher, O. C. Action in the East. New York: Doubleday, Doran 1942. [Fall of Singapore, the sinking of the Repulse, etc.]
Gannon, Michael. Black May. New York: Harper Collins, 1998 [The story of Convoy ONS-5]
Gibson, Charles Dana. Ordeal of Convoy NY-119. Ensign Press, PO Box 638, Camden, Maine 04843: 1973
Gordon, Arthur. The Years of Peril. New York: Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. (Mobil Shipping and Transportation Company), 1954, 1994
Gretton, Peter. Crisis Convoy (HX-231). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1974
Griffiths, Owen. Darwin Drama. Sydney, Australia: Bloxham & Chambers Ltd.,1945
Grover, David H. and Grover, Gretchen G. Captives of Shanghai: Story of SS President Harrison. Napa, CA: Western Maritime Press, 1999 Book Review
Hadley, Michael L. U-boats against Canada: German submarines in Canadian waters. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1985
Harding, Duncan. Tug of War, The Story of a Tug-boat on the U-Boat Infested Convoy Runs to Murmansk. Futura Publications Limited, 1975
Hartcup, Guy. Code Name Mulberry: The Planning, Building and Operation of the Normandy Harbours. New York: Hippocrene, 1983
Haskell, Winthrop A. Shadows on the Horizon: The Battle of Convoy HX-233. Annapolis MD: Naval Institute Press, 1998
Hickam, Homer H. , Jr. Torpedo Junction: U-Boat War off America's East Coast, 1942. Annapolis MD: Naval Institute Press, 1989 (available in paperback from Dell Publishing) Book Review
Higgins, Michael. Action in the South Atlantic. The Propeller Club, Port of Brunswick; P.O. Box 611; Brunswick, GA 31521 on sale for $6.50 to raise funds for the two monuments in Brunswick which honor merchant mariners and those killed on the SS Oklahoma and Esso Baton Rouge just off Brunswick. Book Review
Holland, James. Fortress Malta: An Island Under Siege 1940-43. New York: Miramax Books, 2003
Hunter, J. H. [as told by Ethel Bell]. Adrift. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1943 [Sinking of SS West Lashaway]
Hutson, Harry C. Arctic Interlude: Independent To North Russia. Bennington, Vermont: World War II Historical Society Monograph 219, 1997 [USA: William Clark, Hugh Williamson, John Walker, John H. B. Latrobe, Richard H. Alvey. Great Britain: Chulmleigh, Empire Scott, Empire Gilbert, Empire Sky, Empire Galliard, Daldorch. USSR: Dekabrist]
Infield, Glenn B. Disaster at Bari. New York: Macmillan,1971
Irving, David. Destruction of PQ-17. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968
Johnson, Robert Erwin. Bering Sea Escort: Life Aboard a Coast Guard Cutter in World War II. Annapolis MD: Naval Institute Press, 1992
Johnson, Rody. Different Battles: The Search for a World War II Hero. Manhattan KS: Sunflower University Press, 1999 [Coast Guard patrol off Vero Beach, Florida, sinking of SS Java Arrow]
Jopes, Bill with Dekeyser, Doug. A Voyage to Abadan. Xlibris Corporation, 1999 Book Review [Story of SS Yamhill encounter with Japanese submarine]
Kelshall, Gaylord T. M. The U-Boat War in the Caribbean. Annapolis MD: Naval Institute Press,1994
Kemp, Paul. Convoy! Drama in Arctic Waters. London: Brockhampton, 1993
Lund, Paul and Ludlam, Harry. Night of the U-Boats - the Story of Convoy SC7. London: New English Library, 1975
Lund, Paul and Ludlam, Harry. PQ 17--Convoy to Hell: the survivors' story. London: Foulsham, 1968
Lunney, Bill and Finch, Frank. Forgotten Fleet - A history of the part played by Australian men and ships in the U.S. Army Small Ships Section in New Guinea, 1942-1945. Medowie, NSW, Australia: Forfleet, 1996
Macintyre, Donald. Battle for the Mediterranean. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1964
McCoy, Samuel Duff. Nor Death Dismay, New York: Macmillian, 1944 [American Export Lines: Excalibur; Exchange; Exceller; Exmoor; Exhibitor; Exochorda; Expositor; Drottningholm exchange Japanese and American Pow's; Coloradan; Zaandam; Exford; Swiftsure; Examelia; Exeter; Excalibur; Aurora; Excello; Exchester; Exilone; Exmoor; Express; Exiria; Exceller; Executive; Excello; Aurora]
Middlebrook, Martin. Convoy, London: William Morrow and Company, 1976 [ Well researched, well illustrated story of Convoys HX229 and SC122]
Morris, Eric. Corregidor: The End of the Line. New York: Stein and Day, 1981
NEW! Moses, Sam. At All Costs: How a Crippled Ship and Two American Merchant Marines Turned the Tide of World War II. New York: Random House, 2006 Book Review [Operation Pedestal to Malta, Santa Elisa, Ohio]
Murphy, Mark. 83 Days; The Survival of Seaman Izzi. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1943 [Sinking of SS Zaandam]
O'Flaherty, "Ferocious." Abandoned Convoy: The U.S. Merchant Marine in World War II. The Full Story of the Debacle of Convoy P.Q.-17 Told for the First Time! Jericho NY; Exposition Press, 1970
Orita, Zenji and Harrington, Joseph. I-Boat Captain. Canoga Park, CA: Major Books, 1976
Pearson, Michael. Red Sky in the Morning - the Battle of the Barents Sea 1942. Shrewsbury, England: Airlife Publishing Limited, 2002
Pearson, Michael. The Ohio and Malta: The Legendary Tanker that Refused to Die. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom: Leo Cooper/Pen & Sword Books, 2004
NEW! Reminick, Gerald. Action In The South Atlantic; the Sinking of the German Raider Stier by the Liberty Ship Stephen Hopkins. Palo Alto, CA: Glencannon Press Maritime Books, 2006 Book Review
Reminick, Gerald. Nightmare at Bari: Eyewitness accounts of the World War II mustard gas disaster and cover up in Italy. Palo Alto, CA: Glencannon Press Maritime Books, 2001
Reminick, Gerald. Patriots and Heroes:True Stories of the U.S. Merchant Marine in World War II. Palo Alto, CA: Glencannon Press Maritime Books, 2000 Book Review
Revely, Henry. The Convoy that Nearly Died: The Story of ONS154. London: Kimber, 1979
Richards, Joe. Tug of War. New York: David McKay, 1979 [Story by Master of an Army tug in the Pacific.]
Robinson, David A. The Battle of the Gulf of St. Lawrence 1942-1944. Ottawa: Veteran Affairs Canada, 1999, 2000
Rohwer, Jurgen. Critical Convoy Battles of March 1943, Annapolis MD: Naval Institute Press, 1977 [The Battle for HX229 and SC122]
Ruegg, Bob and Hague, Arnold. Convoys to Russia: 1941-1945. Kendal, England: World Ship Society, 1992
Schofield, B. B. & Martyn, L.F. The Russian Convoys. London: Blackwood, 1964
Seth, Ronald. Fiercest Battle: The Story of North Atlantic Convoy ONS 5. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1961
Shankland, Peter and Hunter, Anthony. Malta Convoy. New York: Ives Washburn, Inc., 1961 [The Saga of the tanker SS Ohio brilliantly written.]
Skattebol, Lars. The Last Voyage of the Quien Sabe. New York: Harper & Bros. 1944 [Sinking of the SS Scapa Flow]
Smith, Peter. Arctic Victory: The Story of Convoy PQ18. London: Crecy 1994 Book Review
Smith, Peter C. Pedestal - The Malta Convoy of August 1942. London: William Kimber, 1970 [Another version of the Malta Convoy, just a notch below the Shankland and Hunter book.]
Southern, George. Poisonous Inferno - World War II Tragedy at Bari Harbour. Shrewsbury, England: Airlife Publishing Limited, 2002 [in US- Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2002]
Sowinski, Larry. Action in the Pacific: as seen by US Navy photographers during World War 2. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1981
Stanford, Alfred. Force Mulberry: The Planning and Installation of the Artificial Harbor Off the U.S. Normandy Beaches in World War II. New York: Morrow, 1951
______. Stories of the Australian Merchant Navy, "The War at Sea" 1939-1946. Private printing, 2001
Taylor, Theodore. Fire on the Beaches. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1958 [Well written, reads almost like a novel. Has interesting stories about the panic along the Coasts and casualties among mariners.]
Thomas, David A. Malta Convoys. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom: Pen & Sword Books, 2000
Thompson, Ray and Childers, Ray. 34 Days in Hell. Ray Thompson, 1996 [Attacks on the SS Leonidas Merritt at Leyte, Philippines Oct 14, 1944 to Jan 5, 1945]
Thornton, Francis Beauchesne. Sea of Glory: The Magnificent Story of the Four Chaplains. NY: Prentice-Hall, 1953
Turner, L.C.F. , Gordon-Cumming, H.R., and Betzler, J.E. War in the Southern Oceans, 1939-1945. London: Oxford University Press, 1961
Underbrink Robert. Destination Corregidor. Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute, 1971
Wallace, Robert. The Secret Battle 1942-1944; the Convoy Battle off the East Coast of Australia during World War II. Ringwood, Victoria, Australia: Lamont Publishing, 1995
Warner, Denis Ashton and Peggy Warner with Sadao Seno. The sacred warriors: Japan's suicide legions. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1982
Webber, Bert. Silent Siege: Japanese attacks against North America in World War II. Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, 1984 [West Coast sinkings]
Wiggins, Melanie. Torpedoes in the Gulf: Galveston and the U-Boats, 1942-1943. College Station, Texas: Texas A& M University Press, 1995
Winn, Godfrey. P.Q.17. London: Hutchinson, 1946
Winser, John de S. The D-Day Ships, Neptune: the Greatest Amphibious Operation in History. Kendal, England: World Ship Society, 1994 $28.95 at Mariners International Book Review
Woodman, Richard. Arctic Convoys: 1941-1945. London: John Murray Publishers, 1994
Woodman, Richard. Malta Convoys. London: John Murray Publishers, 2000
Worth, John. The American Merchant Marine at the Normandy Landings. Kings Point, NY: American Merchant Marine Museum, 1947, 1994
U.S. Naval Armed Guard includes memoirs
Berry, Bob, and Wendt, Lloyd. Gunners Get Glory, Bob Berry's Story of the Navy's Armed Guard. New York: Bobb-Merrill Co.,1943 [The loss of the SS Scottsburg and SS Kahuku]
Bowerman, Thomas R. Fireclay - An Autobiography. Artex Publishing, 1601 North 8 th Street, Sheboygan, Wisconsin 53081: 1996
Briggs, Frank R., Jr. "Detached Command - Multiple Duties of Armed Guard Officers." United States Naval Institute Proceedings 69, no.11 (Nov. 1943): pp. 1469-1470
Britton, Beverley L. "Navy Stepchildren: The Armed Guard." United States Naval Institute Proceedings 73, no.12 (Dec. 1947): pp.1495-1501
Brown, Roy W. Jig How: A Story of the U.S. Navy Armed Guard During World War II. Baltimore: Publish America, 2003
Di Phillip, John. Gunner's Diary. Boston: Meador Publishing Co., 1946
Dupra, Lyle E. We Delivered! - The U.S. Navy Armed Guard in World War II. Sunflower University Press, 1531 Yuma, PO Box 1009, Manhattan, Kansas 66505: 1997
Galati, Bob (Editor). Gunner's Mate. Innovatia Press, 1425 Maryland Drive, Irving Texas 75061: 1993
Gleichauf, Justin F. Unsung Sailors - The Naval Armed Guard in World War II. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1990
_______. History of the Armed Guard Afloat. Naval Administrative History Series, Washigton, DC
_______. A History of the Armed Guard Veterans of World War II. United States Navy Armed Guard Veterans of World War II, Dallas: Taylor Publishing Co., 1987
McCormick, Harold J. Two Years Behind The Mast: An American Landlubber at Sea During WW II. Sunflower University Press, 1531 Yuma, PO Box 10009, Manhattan, KS 66505, 1991
McGee, William L. Bluejacket Odyssey: Guadalcanal to Bikini Atoll, Naval Armed Guard in the Pacific. BMC Publications, 52 Seaview Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93108, Revised edition 2000 [$35 http://www.BMCpublications.com]
Milach, Jordan. Bell-Bottom Shorts. New York: Carlton Press, 1968
Navy Department. General Instructions For Commanding Officers Of Naval Armed Guards On Merchant Ships. 1943. Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1943
Navy Department. Ordnance And Gunnery Instructions For Naval Armed Guards On Merchant Ships, 1944, OPNAV-23L-1. Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1944
The Plane Shooter: Armed Guard School, Shelton, Virginia. United States Navy, 1943.
Reminick, Gerald. No Surrender: True Stories of the U.S. Navy Armed Guard in World War II. Palo Alto, CA: Glencannon Press Maritime Books, 2004
Schofield, William G.. Eastward the Convoys. Chicago: Rand McNally and Co., 1965
Allied & Axis Fleets: Britain, Canada, Norway, Estonia, Ireland, Japan, Germany, Italy
Armstrong, Warren. Battle of the Oceans the Story of the British Merchant Marine. New York: Liveright Publishing, 1944
Behrens, C. B. A. Merchant Shipping & The Demands of War, London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office & Longmans Green and Co.,1955, 1978
Bone, David W. Merchantman Rearmed. London: Chatto & Windus, 1949 [Recollections of World War I and World War II by British merchant sailor.]
Brice, Martin. Axis Blockade Runners of World War II. London: B. T. Batsford, 1981. [Detailed account of German merchant marine shipping during WWII which ensured regular supplies fo vital war materials. Stresses the importance of the supply of raw rubber from the Far East, the value of Germany's exports during this period, the role of American aerial and surface patrols and the success of the Italian runners.]
Brown, Dave. Faces of War. Burnstown: General Store, 1998 [A collection of stories of Canadians who served their country in time of war]
Cameron, Ian. Red Duster, White Ensign - The Story of Malta and the Malta Convoys. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1960
Caulfield, Max. Tomorrow Never Came: The Story of the S. S. Athenia. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1958
Ditton, Thom. We Sailed At Dawn: The Stark and Realistic Story of a World War II Convoy Under Attack in the Atlantic. Boston: Christopher Publishing House, 1955 [Author sailed in September 1941 from Halifax as an officer on a British freighter]
Dunmore, Spencer. In Great Waters: The Epic Story of the Battle of the Atlantic, 1939 - 1945. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1999
Giesler, Patricia. The Battle of the Atlantic. Ottawa: Veteran Affairs Canada, 2000
Giesler, Patricia. Valour at Sea. Ottawa: Veteran Affairs Canada, 1998
Easton, Alan. 50 North, An Atlantic Battleground. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1963
Edwards, Bernard. Donitz and the Wolf Packs. London: Brockhampton, 1996
Elphick, Peter. Life Line: the Merchant Navy at War 1939-1945. London: Chatham Publishing, 1999
Essex, James W. Victory in the St. Lawrence: Canada's Unknown War. Erin, Ontario: Boston Mills Press, 1984
Forde, Frank. The Long Watch: World War Two and the Irish Merchantile Marine. Dublin, Ireland: New Island, 2000
Fraser, Doug. Postwar Casualty: Canada's Merchant Navy. Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia: Pottersfield Press, 1997
Gallagher, O. C. Action in the East. New York: Doubleday, Doran 1942. [Fall of Singapore, the sinking of the Repulse, etc.]
Hadley, Michael L. U-boats against Canada: German submarines in Canadian waters. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1985
Halstead, Ivor. Heroes of the Atlantic. The British Merchant Navy Carries On. New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc.,1942
Hansson, Per. One in Ten Had to Die. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1970 [British Merchant Navy]
Heal, S.C. A Great Fleet Of Ships: The Canadian Forts & Parks. St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada: Vanwell Publ., 1999. [History of Canadian fleet of "Park" and "Fort" merchant ships.]
Heal, S. C. Conceived In War, Born In Peace:Canada 's Deep Sea Merchant Marine. Vancouver, Canada: Cordillera Publishing, 1992
Her Majesties Stationary Office. British Vessels lost at Sea 1939-45, Cambridge, UK: Patrick Stephens, 1976
Her Majesties Stationary Office. Merchantmen at War, The Official Story of the Merchant Navy: 1939-1944, London: H.M.S.O. Ministry of War Transport, 1944
Hodson, J. L. British Merchantmen at War, the Official Story of the Merchant Navy: 1939-1944. London: Ziff-Davis Publishing Co., 1944
Hughes, Robert. Flagship to Murmansk. London: Kimber, 1961
Hurd, Archibald. The Battle of the Seas: The Fighting Merchantmen. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941
Kelly, Percy A. The Lady Boats, The Life and Times of Canada's West Indies Merchant Fleet, Halifax NS: Canadian Marine Transportation Centre Dalhousie Univ., 1980
Lewis, William J. Under the Red Duster: The Merchant Navy in World War II. London: Swan Hill, 2003
Lindbaek, Lise, et al. translated by Nora Solum. Norway's New Saga of the Sea: The Story of Her Merchant Marine in World War II. New York: Exposition, 1969
Lorentzen, Oivind. Norway, Norwegian Shipping and the War. New York: Oxford University Press: 1942
Lunney, Bill and Finch, Frank. Forgotten Fleet - A history of the part played by Australian men and ships in the U.S. Army Small Ships Section in New Guinea, 1942-1945. Medowie, NSW, Australia: Forfleet, 1996
Milner, Marc. The North Atlantic Run: The Royal Canadian Navy and the Battle for the Convoys. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1989
Milner, Marc. The U-boat Hunters: the Royal Canadian Navy and the offensive against Germany's submarines, 1943-1945. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1994
Pakri, Artur et al. The Raging Waves: The Estonian Merchant Marine Officers Recall Days Of Their Stormy Past At Sea. Toronto: Oma Press Limited, 1985
Parillo, Mark P. The Japanese Merchant Marine in World War II. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1993
Pearce, Frank. Heroes of the Fourth Service. London: Robert Hale, 1996. [Story of the British Merchant Marine in WW2]
Pearson, Michael. Red Sky in the Morning - the Battle of the Barents Sea 1942. Shrewsbury, England: Airlife Publishing Limited, 2002
Ritchie, Lewis (Bartimeus). East of Malta, West of Suez: the Official Admiralty Account of the Mediterranean Fleet, 1939-1943. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1944 and London: HMSO, 1943 [Explores the crucial role that the British Navy's Mediterranean campaign played in the defeat of Axis forces in North Africa. By holding onto Malta the British were able to continually inflict great losses on Rommel's supply ships.]
Rogers, Stanley. Enemy in Sight! New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1943 [British Navy and Merchant Marine at War]
Roskill, S. W. A Merchant Fleet in War 1939-1945. London: Alfred Holt & Co., 1962
Rutter, Owen. Red Ensign: A History of Convoy. London: Robert Hale, 1942
Sager, Eric. Ships and Memories Merchant Seafarers in Canada's Age of Steam. Vancouver: University of British Columbia, 1993 [Canadian sailors from 1920 to 1950]
Saul, Ivor Signalman. Camera in Convoy. Cambridge: Ellisons' Ed., 1987
Shaw, Frank. Under The Red Ensign. London, England: Bodley Head, 1957
Slader, John. Fourth Service: Merchantmen at War, 1939-45. New York: Brick Tower Press, 1995 [British Merchant Navy during World War II]
______. Stories of the Australian Merchant Navy, "The War at Sea" 1939-1946. Private printing, 2001
Tennent, Alan J. British and Commonwealth Merchant Ship Losses to Axis Submarines 1939-1945. Stroud, England: Sutton Publishing, 2001
Turner, L.C.F. , Gordon-Cumming, H.R., and Betzler, J.E. War in the Southern Oceans, 1939-1945. London: Oxford University Press, 1961
Wallace, Robert. The Secret Battle 1942-1944; the Convoy Battle off the East Coast of Australia during World War II. Ringwood, Victoria, Australia: Lamont Publishing, 1995
Watt, Frederick B. In All Aspects Ready. The Merchant Navy And The Battle Of The Atlantic. 1940-1945. Scarborough Canada, Prentice-Hall, 1985. [A first-person account of the struggle by Royal Canadian Navy personnel stationed in Halifax to help keep the Allied Merchant Navy afloat during the Battle of the Atlantic.]
Winton, John. Convoy: the Defence of Sea Trade 1890-1990. London: M. Joseph, 1983
Woddis, Jack. Under the Red Duster: A Study of Britain's Merchant Navy. London: Senior Press, 1947
Woon, Basil. Atlantic Front: the Merchant Navy in the War. London: Peter Davies, 1941
Young, John M. Britain's Sea War, London: Patrick Stephens, 1989
Casualty (Also see Specific Actions of WWII)
Browning, Robert M. U.S. Merchant Vessel War Casualties of World War II. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1996
Chewning, Alpheus J. The Approaching Storm: U-boats off the Virginia Coast During World War II. Lively, VA: Brandylane Publishers, 1994
Conner, William H. and Leon deValinger, Jr. (Editors). Delaware's role in World War II, 1940-1946. Dover: Delaware Public Archives Commission, 1955
Crump, Irving. Our Tanker Fleet. New York: Dodd, Mead & Compant, 1952 [Pan Massachusetts; San Demetrio; Esso Baytown; F. D. Asche; Vistula; D. L. Harper; San Alberto; Alexande Andre; Frank Haskell; Esso Zurich; Euplectella; Thorunn; E. G. Seubert; Spicer; I. C. White; Esso Baytown; George G. Henry; Fleet Oilers; Chenango; Esso New Orleans; Amastra Ancyclus Miralda Aircraft Carriers; Ondina Bengal; Esso Bolivar; Tanker Collision Delaware; Tricula; Ohio; Esso Gettysburg]
Hemphill, W. Edwin (Editor). Gold star honor roll of Virginians in the Second World War. Charlottesville: Virginian World War II History Commission, 1947
Hocking, Charles. Dictionary Of Disasters At Sea During The Age Of Steam, Including sailing ships and ships of War lost in action, 1824-1962. London: Lloyd's Register of Shipping, 1969
Lee, Lloyd L. (Editor). In Freedom's Cause: A record of the men of Hawaii who died in the Second World War. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1949
Moore, Arthur R. A Careless Word - A Needless Sinking: A History of the Staggering Losses Suffered by the U.S. Merchant Marine, both in Ships and Personnel, during World War II. American Merchant Marine Museum, Kings Point, NY; Eighth Edition 2006 published by Dennis Roland Chapter of American Merchant Marine Veterans, New Jersey. New Edition Available! Index Available - Order Now!
Rohwer, Jurgen. Axis Submarine Successes of World War Two. (Revised and expanded) U.S. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1999
______. Ships of the Esso Fleet in World War II. Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, 1946
______. Summary of Merchant Marine Personnel Casualties in World War II. US Coast Guard, Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1 July 1950
______. U.S. Merchant Ship Losses, December 7, 1941 to August 14, 1945. US Coast Guard, Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office
______. Welcome Home: Those Who Served in World War II from Borough of Red Lion, PA (also relative or person who conducted business in the area.) Red Lion, PA: Citizen's Committee of Red Lion, 1946 [Brief biography, WWII service, and place buried if killed]
Prisoners of War and InterneesBlair, Joan and Blair, Clay. Return From the River Kwai. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979 [Excellent account of the sinking of two Japanese ships carrying English and Australian POW's from the River Kwai death camps]
Bocksel, Arnold A. Rice, Men and Barbed Wire. Hauppauge, NY: Michael B. Glass, 1991 [former mariner joins the Army in 1941 and is captured in the Philippines.]
Boulle, Pierre. The Bridge Over the River Kwai, New York: Vanguard Press, Inc, 1954 [An exciting novel which was made into a movie. It is a poor representation of the plight of the prisoners -- in the novel they are happy to build the bridge for the Japanese, while in reality they tried to sabotage it as best they could.]
Burton, Reginald. Railway of Hell: War Captivity and Forced Labour at the Hands of the Japanese. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen and Sword / Leo Cooper, 2002
Cogan, Frances B. Captured: The Japanese Internment of American Civilians in The Philippines, 1941-1945. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2000
Daws, Gavan. Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of WWII in the Pacific. New York: Morrow, 1994
Edwards, Bernard. Blood and Bushido, Japanese Atrocities at Sea. 1941-1945. New York: Brick Tower Press 1991 [Ships: Langkoeas, Elysia, Ondina, Bengal, Centaur, Daisy Moller, British chivalry, Sutlej, Ascot, Behar, Nancy Moller, Tjisalak, Richard Hovey, Jean Nicolet, John A. Johnson]
Flanagan, E. M. Jr. The Los Banos Raid. The 11th Airborne Jumps at Dawn. by Novato CA: Presidio Press, 1986
Gordon, Ernest. Through the Valley of the Kwai: From Death-Camp Despair to Spiritual Triumph. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1962 [Excellent, moving book]
Grover, David H. and Grover, Gretchen G. Captives of Shanghai: Story of SS President Harrison. Napa, CA: Western Maritime Press, 1999 Book Review
Holmes, Linda Goetz. 4000 Bowls of Rice: A Prisoner of War Comes Home. St. Leonards, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1993 [The author conducted interviews with members of the Australian Pioneer Battalion who were prisoners on the River Kwai Railroad. Well done book.]
Kinvig, Clifford. River Kwai Railway: The Story of the Burma-Siam Railway. Washington: Brasseys, 1998
La Forte, Robert S. and Marcello, Ronald E. (Editors). Building the Death Railway, The Ordeal of American POWs in Burma, 1942-1945. Wilmington, 1993
Lamont-Brown, Raymond. Ships From Hell: Japanese War Crimes on the High Seas. Stroud, United Kingdom: Alan Sutton, 2002
Leck, Greg. Captives of Empire: The Japanese Internment of Allied Civilians in China 1941-1945. Bangor PA: Shandy Press, 2006 http://www.captives-of-empire.com/
Lomax, Eric. The Railway Man: A POW's Searing Account of War, Brutality and Forgiveness. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995 [A moving memoir by a Scot whose hobby was researching railroads and who ended up working on the River Kwai Railroad. He was tortured and sent to a harsher prison as punishment for drawing a map of the railroad. Highly recommended]
McEwan, James. The Remorseless Road - Singapore to Nagasaki - An RAF Officer's Account of Capture and the Japanese Prison Camps of World War II. England: Airlife, 1997
McIntosh, Dave. Hell on Earth. Aging Faster, Dying Sooner. Canadian Prisoners of the Japanese During World War II. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1997
Michno, Gregory F. Death on the Hellships: Prisoners at Sea in the Pacific War. Annapolis, Naval Institute Press, 2001 and South Yorkshire England: Leo Cooper, 2001
Peackock, Basil. Tinker's Mufti: Memoirs of a Part-Time Soldier. London: Seeley Service, 1974
Nussbaum, Chaim. Chaplain on the River Kwai: The Story of a Prisoner of War. New York: Shapolsky, 1988
Phillips, Leonard A. The Drummer Boy. New York: Carlton Press, Inc. 1983 [Autobiography of a British soldier who enlisted in the British Army as a drummer boy at sixteen and took part in the early battles in Malaya. He was a prisoner on the River Kwai camps.]
Reminick, Gerald. Death's Railway: A Merchant Mariner on the River Kwai. Palo Alto, CA: Glencannon Press Maritime Books, 2002
Searle, Ronald. To the Kwai and Back. Collins, 1986
Seiker, Fred and Vivis, Bevere. Lest We Forget. Gallery Books Ltd, [contains 21 water colour paintings, a short story, etc. about a single day in the life of a Japanese P.O.W. on the infamous "Railroad of Death," Thai-Burma River Kwai railroad. Bevere Vivis Gallery Books Ltd. Bevere Lane, Worcester WR3 7RQ Tel: 01905 451291 Fax: 01905 454 104
Skidmore, Ian. Marines Don't Hold Their Horses. London: Allen, 1981 [Story of Colonel Alan Warren who spent three years in Japanese River Kwai POW camps]
Stevens, Frederic H. Santo Tomas Internment Camp 1942-1945. Stratford House, Inc, 1946
Stewart, John. To the River Kwai: Two Journeys - 1943, 1979. London: Bloomsbury, 1988 [Author is one of the few survivors of the Sonkurai camp, the worst on the Burma-Siam railway]
Thomas, Gabe. Milag - Captives of the Kriegsmarine. Tir Uchaf Cottage, Derwen Road, Alltwen, Pontardawe. SA8 3AY Tel: +44 (0)1792 865377 email: mailto:gabe@milag.org
Warwick, Ernest. Tamajao 241: A POW Camp on the River Kwai. Rochford Leagas 1987 http://www.tamajao241.org.uk/
Willner, Mark. In Hell There is a Place Called Death Railway. Angel Station, Inc, 2000. CD-ROM provides a multi-dimensional view of Stanley Willner's remarkable story. It contains news footage, audio snippets in Willner's voice that give special insights into the events that took place. Order through Amazon or Barnes and Noble or http://www.angelstation.com/swillner/
Wygle, Peter R.; Wheeler, Eugene D. (editor). Surviving a Japanese P. O. W. Camp : Fatherand Son Endure Internment in Manila During World War II. Ventura, CA: Pathfinder Publishing of California, 1991
U.S. Government DocumentsBykofsky, Joseph, and Larson, Harold. United States Army in World War II The Transportation Corps: Operations Overseas. Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army, Government Printing Office, 1957
Browning, Robert M. Jr. "The Coast Guard and the Pacific War," Washington, DC: Coast Guard Historian's Office, 1995
Browning, Robert M. Jr. "The Eyes and Ears of the Convoy: Development of the Helicopter as an Anti-Submarine weapon," Washington, DC: Coast Guard Historian's Office, 1993
_______. Captains of the Port. Washington: Statistical Division, U.S. Coast Guard, 1943
_______, Final Report of a Board of Investigation to Inquire into the Design and Methods of Construction of Welded Steel Merchant Ships. 15 July, 1946. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1947
_______. History of the Armed Guard Afloat. Naval Administrative History Series, Washington, DC
_______. Merchant Vessels of the United States, 1941, 1943-46. U.S. Coast Guard
_______. Merchant Vessel Inspection Division. War Action Casualties involving Merchant Tank Vessels. Washington: Merchant Vessel Inspection Division, U.S. Coast Guard, undated.
_______. Military Sea Transportation and Shipping Control. Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navpers10829-A, Washington, DC 1954
Navy Department. General Instructions For Commanding Officers Of Naval Armed Guards On Merchant Ships. 1943. Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1943
Navy Department. Ordnance And Gunnery Instructions For Naval Armed Guards On Merchant Ships, 1944, OPNAV-23L-1. Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1944
_______. Office of War Information. Press Releases, Numbers 1-4960, 1942-45. Washington DC: Office of War Information, 1942-45
_______. Plan for Repatriation of the Dead of World War II and Establishment of Permanent United States Military Cemeteries at Home and Abroad. War Department. Army Service Forces. Washington, DC: September 1945
_______. Statements by Survivors of U.S. Merchant Vessels During World War II. Office of Chief of Naval Operations, Department of the Navy, Washington, DC.
_______.Statistical Analysis of 167 Torpedo Hits on 104 U.S. Tankers (Including Tables on British Tanker Casualties)(Does Not Include U.S. Navy or British Admiralty Oilers) Based on Records of the U.S. Coast Guard from 12-20-41 to 7-22-43. Washington: U.S. Coast Guard, January, 1944
_______.Suggestions Concerning Tank Vessel Operations During Wartime. Washington: GPO, 1945
_______. Summary of Merchant Marine Personnel Casualties in World War II. US Coast Guard, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1 July 1950
_______. U.S. House: Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Hearings, 79th Congress, First Session. Government Printing Office, 1945. Benefits To Merchant Seaman, Hearings Before the Committee on HR 2346: A Bill to Provide Aid for the Readjustment in Civilian Life of those Persons Who Rendered War Service in the United States Merchant Marine During World War II, and to Provide Aid for the Families of Deceased War-Service Merchant Seaman (Commonly referred to as Merchant Seaman's War Service Act); HR 2180: A Bill to Provide Federal Government Aid for the Readjustment in Civilian Life of World War I and World War II Merchant Marine Veterans; HR 2449: A Bill to Amend Title III of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, To Provide Certain Rights for Members of the Merchant Marine Serving During World War I; HR 3500: A Bill to Extend the War-Risk Insurance on Seaman to Cover Death from any Marine Risk, and for other purposes.
_______. U.S. House: Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Hearings, 80th Congress, First Session. Government Printing Office, 1947. Benefits To Merchant Seaman, Hearings Before the Ship Construction and Operation and Maritime Labor SubCommittee of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries on HR 476: A Bill to Provide Aid for the Readjustment in Civilian Life of those Persons Who Rendered Wartime Service in the United States Merchant Marine, and to Provide Aid for their Families (Commonly referred to as Merchant Seaman's Wartime Service Act). February 18; May 12-23; June 2-9. 1947.
_______. U.S. Merchant Ship Losses, December 7, 1941 to August 14, 1945. US Coast Guard, Washington
_______. U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Awards Manual. Washington, DC: Department of the Navy, 1953, 1956, 1957
_______. U.S. Navy Division of Naval Intelligence. WWII ONI 220-M Axis Submarine Manual. Axis submarines and tactics for the "masters and seaman of our merchant marine and for armed guard crews." 1942.
_______. The United States Maritime Service: Information Booklet, War Shipping Administration, Washington DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944
_______, The United States Merchant Marine At War, Report of the War Shipping Administrator to the President. Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, January 15, 1946 Book Review
Wardlow, Chester. The Transportation Corps: Movements, Training, and Supply. Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army, Government Printing Office,1956, 1978, 1990
Wardlow, Chester. The Transportation Corps: Responsibilities, Organization, and Operations. Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army, Government Printing Office, 1951, 1980
U.S. Maritime Service, United Seamen's Service
Carse, Robert. Your Place in the Merchant Marine: History, Training and Career Opportunities. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1964
Chamberlain, Roy W. Maritime Law for Seamen: Prepared for the United States Maritime Service. New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc. 1940
Douglas, John Scott and Salz, Albert. He's In the Merchant Marine Now. New York: Robert M. McBride and Co.,1943
Felsen, Gregor. Some Follow the Sea with a supplement of Merchant Marine Photographs. New York: Dutton, 1944
Floherty, John J. Youth and the Sea: Our Merchant Marine Calls American Youth. Philadelphia:J. B. Lippincott Company, 1941
Ford, A. D. Handling and Storage of Cargo. New York: International Textbook Co., 1942
Gallups Island Radio Association. We Came from All Over, We Went Everywhere: History of Gallups Island, Its Veterans and Their Role in Our Freedom. Turner Publishing Company, PO Box 3101 412 Broadway, Paducah, Kentucky, 42002-3101, 1994 [turnerpc@apex.net or 1-800-443-0121. Cost $39.95 + $5.00 S&H]
_______. General Information Manual United States Maritime Service. Personnel Procedures Unit, United States Maritime Service, June 1945
Hahn, Herbert Paul. American Mariner: A Documentary Biography of Her Role as: Liberty Ship, Training Ship, Missile Instrumentation Ships, Mystery Ship, Test Target. Kings Point, New York: American Merchant Marine Museum Foundation, 1990
Hoffman, Michelle L., St. Petersburg's Maritime Service Training Station. Mt. Pleasant, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2006
Hohman, Paul Elmo. Seamen ashore; a study of the United Seamen's Service and of merchant seamen in port. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1952
_______. How to Get Your Bearings: An Information Pamphlet for Prospective Merchant Sailors. Washington, DC: War Shipping Administration, 1944, 1945
_______. Information Booklet: United States Maritime Service. War Shipping Administration, Training Organization
______. Knitting For The Fighting Forces: Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Merchant Marine. Bundles For America Inc., 1943
Lane, Carl D. What the Citizen Should Know About The Merchant Marine. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1941
Lent, Henry B. Ahoy, Shipmate! Steve Ellis Joins the Merchant Marine. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1945
_______. Manual for lifeboatmen and Able Seamen. United States Coast Guard. Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944
McLintock, Gordon. Your Future In The Merchant Marine. New York: Richards Rosen Press, Inc., Revised edition 1968
_______. Review of Merchant Marine Personnel Training Program. U. S. Department of Commerce, Maritime Administration, April 1955
Riesenberg, Jr., Felix. Full ahead ! A career story of the American merchant marine. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1941
______. The story of upgrading! "Earn while you learn." United States Maritime Service, Upgrading Schools, War Shipping Administration Training Organization. Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944
Thompson, W. K. and Stone, G. W. Jr. A Naval Log. Essential Information For Officers And Officer Candidates Of The Navy And Merchant Marine. New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1945
_______. A Study of the U. S. Merchant Marine Training Program and Related Activities of the Maritime Administration. U. S. Department of Commerce, 1950
Talcott, Richard Bennett. A Letter from United States Maritime Service, Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York. Somerville, MA: Richard Bennett Talcott, 1944_______. The United States Maritime Service, Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York. Brooklyn, New York: United States Maritime Service, Sheepshead Bay, c. 1944 [Yearbook]
Young, Burt. Should Veteran Status be Dependent on a Kangaroo Court? Crete NB: Dageforde Publishing, Inc. 2003
Merchant Marine Academy and Cadet Corps
_______. Americans Who Have Contributed to the History and Traditions of the United States Merchant Marine. Educational Unit U.S. Merchant Marine Cadet Corps, Kings Point, NY: U.S. Merchant Marine Cadet Corps, 1943
Beecher, John. All Brave Sailors - The Story of the SS Booker T. Washington. New York: L.B. Fischer, 1945
Carse, Robert. Cold Corner of Hell. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1969 [Has extensive quotes from cadet reports.]
Cruikshank, Jeffrey L. and Chloe G. Kline. In Peace and War: A History of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2007
Douglas, John Scott and Salz, Albert. He's In the Merchant Marine Now. New York: Robert M. McBride and Co., 1943
______. Insignia and Honor Awards of the Unites States Merchant Marine: The United States Merchant Marine Cadet Corps. War Shipping Administration, 1945Lane, Carl D. What the Citizen Should Know About The Merchant Marine. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1941
Mitchell, C. Bradford. We'll Deliver: Early History of the United States Merchant Marine Academy, 1938-1956. Kings Point, New York: U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Alumni Association, 1977
Morse, Ray. Cadets at Kings Point. New York: Aladdin Books 1949
Nelson, Dennis D. The Integration of the Negro into the United States Navy: 1776-1947. Thesis, Howard University Department of Sociology, 1948
Runyan, Timothy J. and Copes, Jan M. (Editors).To Die Gallantly: The Battle of the Atlantic. Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1994
_______. A Study of the U.S. Merchant Marine Training Program and Related Activities of the Maritime Administration. U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 1950
______. The United States Merchant Marine At War, Report of the War Shipping Administrator to the President. Washington DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, January 15, 1946
______. United States Congress, Senate. Committee on Commerce. "Apprentices in the Commercial Marine", U. S. Senate Report, 34th Congress, 1st Session, Discussion of law providing for a system of apprenticeship in the merchant service. 1856
______. War Shipping Administration. Press Releases 1942-1946
Ships and Fleets (includes World War II)
American Mail Line, American Mail Line. American Mail Line,1946
Benson, Richard M. Steamships and Motorships of the West Coast. New York: Bonanza Books, 1968
Bethlehem Steel Corp., Bethlehem Built. Bethlehem Steel Corp., 1963
Bonner, Kit and Carolyn, Warship Boneyards, MBI Publishing Company, PO Box 1, Osceola WI. 2001
Bonnett, Wayne, Build Ships: Wartime Shipbuilding Photos of San Francisco Bay Area 1940-45.Sausalito, CA: Windgate Press, PO Box 1715, 1999. Book Review
Braynard, Frank O., Famous American Ships: Being an Historical Sketch of the United States as Told Through Its Maritime Life. New York: Hastings House, 1978
Braynard, Frank O and Miller, William H., Fifty Famous Liners. Cambridge, UK: Patrick Stephens Ltd. , 1982
Braynard, Frank O., William H. Miller, Fifty Famous Liners 2. New York: W. W. Norton, 1985
Braynard, Frank O., William H. Miller. Fifty Famous Liners 3. New York: W. W. Norton, 1987
Braynard, Frank O., Lives of the Liners. New York: Cornell Maritime Press, 1947
______, The Book of Ships, 1888-1954. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. New York. [1954]
Bourneuf, Gus. Workhorse of the Fleet: Being a short history of the origin of the design of the 2710 Liberty Ships built by American Shipbuilders during WWII. c. 1990
Bunker, John G. Liberty Ships, The Ugly Ducklings of World War II. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1972
Butler, Daniel Allen. Warrior Queens: The Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth in World War II. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2002
Charles, Roland W. Troopships of World War II. Washington, DC: The Army Transportation Association, 1947
Collins, John J. Never Off Pay: The Story Of The Independent Tanker Union, 1937-1962. New York: Fordham University Press, 1964
Coman, Edwin T. Jr., and Gibbs, Helen M. Time, Tide and Timber: A Century of Pope & Talbot. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1949
Cooper, Sherod, Liberty Ship: The Voyages of the John W. Brown, 1942-1946. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1997
Crump, Irving. Our Tanker Fleet. New York: Dodd, Mead & Compant, 1952
Culver, John A. Ships of the U.S. Merchant Fleet. Weymouth, MA: Denison Press, 1965
Dant, Jack R., with McGovern, Roger. The Way of the Seahorse. Rancho Mirage, CA: Harbor House (West), 1991 [The History of States Lines]
Deschamps, Robert. Liberty Ships: The People Behind the Names. Project Liberty Ship, PO Box 25846, Baltimore, Maryland, 21224-0846, 1997 Book Review
Dowling, Rev. Edward J. Lakers of World War I: The Story of the Contribution of the Great Lakes Shipyards to the Defense Effort of Our Country. Detroit: University of Detroit Press, 1967
Driscoll, Lawrence. S.S. America - U.S.S. West Point - S. S. Australis: The Many Lives of a Great Ship. Palo Alto, CA: Glencannon Press Maritime Books, 2003
Dunn, Laurence. Passenger Liners. London: Adlard Coles Limited, 1965
Elliott, Peter. Allied Escort Ships of World War II. London: MacDonald & Jane's, 1977
Elphick, Peter, Liberty: The Ships That Won the War, Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2001
Emery, Michael, From Dry Dock to D-Day - The Return Voyage of the SS Jeremiah O'Brien, Lens Boy Press, PO Box 460098, San Francisco, California 94146: 1994 Book Review
Emmons, Frederick, American Passenger Ships; The Ocean Lines and Liners, 1873-1983, Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1985
Emmons, Frederick, The Atlantic Liners, New York: Bonanza Books, 1972
Farrington Jr., S. Kip, Ships of the U.S. Merchant Marine, New York: E. P. Dutton Inc. 1947
_______, Final Report of a Board of Investigation to Inquire into the Design and Methods of Construction of Welded Steel Merchant Ships. 15 July, 1946. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1947
_______, Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death: The Story of the Liberty ships of World War II and of the Zebulon Pike. American Bureau of Shipping for American Merchant Marine Museum, 2002
Goldberg, Mark H., Caviar & Cargo, Kings Point, New York: American Merchant Marine Museum, 1992
Goldberg, Mark H., Going Bananas - 100 years of American Fruit Ships in the Caribbean, Kings Point, New York: American Merchant Marine Museum, 1993
Goldberg, Mark H., The Hog Islanders - The Story of 122 American Ships, Kings Point, New York: American Merchant Marine Museum, 1991
Goldberg, Mark H., The Shipping Board's Agency Ships - The Sub Boats, Kings Point, New York: American Merchant Marine Museum, 1995
Goldberg, Mark H., The Stately President Liners - American Passenger Liners of the Interwar Years, Kings Point, New York: American Merchant Marine Museum, 1996
Gordon, Arthur, The Years of Peril, New York: Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. (Mobil Shipping and Transportation Company), 1954, 1994
Grover, David H., U.S. Army Ships and Watercraft of World War II, Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1987
Growden, Gordon A. and Line, Lemuel B., Freighters and Tankers of the U. S. Merchant Marine, New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons
Gruner, George F., The White Flyers Harvard and Yale: American Coastwise Travel, San Francisco: Associates of the National Maritime Museum Library, 2002
Guetat, Gerald G. Liberty Ship. Osceola, WI: MBI Publishing Company, 2003
Hahn, Herbert Paul, American Mariner: A Documentary Biography of Her Role as: Liberty Ship, Training Ship, Missile Instrumentation Ships, Mystery Ship, Test Target, Kings Point, New York: American Merchant Marine Museum Foundation, 1990
Halford, Robert G. The Unknown Navy - Canada's World War II Merchant Navy. St. Catharines: Vanwell Publishers, 1995
Heal, S.C. A Great Fleet Of Ships: The Canadian Forts & Parks. St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada: Vanwell Publ., 1999. [History of Canadian fleet of "Park" and "Fort" merchant ships.]
Hoffman, Eugene F., American President Line's Role in World War II, San Francisco: 1946
Holden, Donald A., Men, Ships and the Sea: The Story of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, New York: The Newcomen Society in North America, 1968
NEW! Imhoff, Ernest F. Good Shipmates (Vol. 1: 1942 to 1994) The Restoration of the Liberty Ship John W. Brown. Palo Alto, CA: Glencannon Press, 2006 [Good Shipmates is the story of the restoration of Baltimore's Liberty ship, the John W. Brown. The ship's volunteers tell of their service in the merchant marine during during World War II. Among them is Charles "Blackie" Blockston, member of the crew on the SS Carlton which sailed in PQ 16 and PQ 17. Blackie spent 3 years in a German POW camp after the Carlton was sunk. Imhoff is a former editor of the Baltimore Sun.]
Jaffee, Walter W., Appointment in Normandy, Palo Alto, California: Glencannon Press, 1995
Jaffee, Walter W., The Last Liberty, United States Merchant Marine Veterans World War II. San Pedro, 1993
Jaffee, Walter W., The Last Mission Tanker, Palo Alto, California: Glencannon Press, 1993 Book Review
Jaffee, Walter W., The Last Victory, San Pedro, California: United States Merchant Marine Veterans World War II, 1991
NEW! Jaffee, Walter W., The Liberty Ships from A (A.B. Hammond) to Z (Zona Gale), Palo Alto, California: Glencannon Press, 2004 Book Review [Encyclopedia of 2,710 Liberty ships: when built, where built, who it was named after, all subsequent names, key dates, owners, shipyards, service, final disposition. Liberty types and ship histories. Hundreds of photos.]
NEW! Jaffee, Walter W., The History of a Liberty Ship from the Battle of the Atlantic to the 21 st Century, Palo Alto, California: Glencannon Press, 2004
NEW! Jaffee, Walter W., The Victory Ships From A (Aberdeen Victory) to Z (Zanesville Victory). Palo Alto, California: Glencannon Press, 2006 [Encyclopedia of the 534 World War II Victory ships, which served in Korea and Vietnam and were the backbone of the U.S. space capsule retrieval program.] Book Review
James, Marquis. The Texaco Story: The First Fifty Years, 1902-1952. The Texas Company, 1953
Jones, Herbert G., Portland Ships are Good Ships, Portland, Maine: Machigonne Press, 1945
Jordan, Roger, The World's Merchant Fleets 1939: The Particulars and Wartime Fates of 6,000 Ships, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1999
Kooiman, William. The Grace Ships, 1869-1969. An Illustrated History of the W.