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The Royal Navy In World War If: An Annotated Bibliography (2nd edition)
Derek G. Law
Scarecrow Press
Lanham, MD
2003
xvi + 670 pp.
ISBN 0 8108 4534 2
$85
Keywords Navy, History, Bibliography, War
Review DOI 10.1108/09504120310504196
It is a delicate task to write a review of a book by an author who has been a friend of the reviewer for thirty years; but in this case, I am confident that an impartial critic would soon be convinced of the book's merits. It is the second edition of a work first published in 1988: that included 1,883 entries and the new edition has 3,317. The author has seen nearly all of them, and has provided annotations to prove it. These are often outspoken; in one of two he goes so far as to question the veracity of some wartime memoirists. Only works...