the following are what I have referenced from, or just read and found to be a damm good read.
some books are quite old and may be out of print. so check out your local library.
| Author | Frank Pearce | 255 pages black & white photos. Covers pretty much everything that happened to the British navy Only four chapters covering American pacific actions. Covers Crete, Matapan, Taranto, HMS Glorious, Glowworm, Edinburgh, Courageous and more. | Author | Jane's | 192 pages both black & white and colour photos lots of profiles of every nations battleship of the last century, a very good reference book. |
| Title | SEA WAR. great naval battles of world war two | Title | Battleships of the 20th century | ||
| Publisher | Hale | Publisher | Harper Collins | ||
| ISBN | 0-7090 -4013X | ISBN | 0-00470-9977 |
| Author | Arthur J Marder | 300 pages, black & white photos + maps.Very interesting chapter on Oran, before, during and after. Menace. | Author | M J Whitley | 320 page black & white photos. a very good reference book with details of modifications to each ship from every nation |
| Title | From the Dardanelles to Oran | Title | Battleships of the second world war | ||
| Publisher | Oxford | Publisher | Arms & Armour | ||
| ISBN | 0-19-215802 3 | ISBN | 1-85409-386-X |
| Author | Paul Kemp | 256 pages black & white photos. tells in detail about the convoy's to Russia, PQ 17, Tripitz and gives a total rundown of the supplies the Allies sent to them. | Author | J Rohwer & G Hummelchen | 432 pages no photos. Originally published in two or three volumes this one is in one edition and is where I started my quest for knowledge, covers every day of the war at sea on every theatre and gives a brief account of what happened. |
| Title | Convoy! drama in arctic waters. | Title | Chronology of the war at sea 1939-45 | ||
| Publisher | Arms & Armour | Publisher | Greenhill books | ||
| ISBN | 1 85409-130-1 | ISBN | 1-85367-117-7 |
| Author | Nicholas monseratt | A collection from the author of the cruel sea, includes the three corvette books,originally published between 1942-44and also includes the ship that died of shame, and the story of the lancastrian.This book gives a very good insight to what it was like to serve on a ship during the war. | Author | H.J.Weaver | This tell the story of the sinking of HMS Royal Oak. it's a bit " my book is right everyone else's is wrong" but it's still a good read. |
| Title | The three corvettes | Title | Nightmare at Scapa Flow | ||
| Publisher | Cassell Military; | Publisher | Cressrelles publishing | ||
| ISBN | 0-304-35444-9 | ISBN | 0- 85956 025- 2 |
| Author | Correlli Barnett | Another weighty one this and covers in great detail many of the engagements during the war. A must read book. | Author | Phil Durham | 213 page, black & white photo's. Follows the Author through training and on the ships on which he served throughout the second world war, including the capture of Diego Suarez, and his stint on a captured U-boat. |
| Title | Engage the enemy more closely (the Royal Navy in the second world war) | Title | The Fuhrer led, but we overtook him | ||
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton | Publisher | Pentland Press | ||
| ISBN | 0- 340 33901- 2 | ISBN | 1-85821-365-7 |
| Author | Alan Raven & John Roberts | 436 pages lots of photos and line drawings. the Bible! this book is a model makers dream and the best reference book for battleships I've seen, it's old and I think out of print so you may have to find it in your local library. | Author | ||
| Title | British battleships of world war two | Title | |||
| Publisher | Arms & armour press | Publisher | |||
| ISBN | 0-85368-141-4 | ISBN |