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| Cover | Title |
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  | Gillen, Michael. Merchant Marine Survivors of World War II: Oral Histories of Cargo Carrying Under Fire. New York: McFarland & Company, 2014 |
  | Saunders, George. Samizdat: Voices of the Soviet Opposition. New York: Pathfinder Press, 2002 |
  | Filatyev, Pavel and Aslanyan, Anna (Translator). Zov: A Russian Soldier Caught Inside Putin’s Unjust War in Ukraine. New York: Random House, 2023 |
  | Albert, Alphaeus, H. Record of American Uniform & Historical Buttons 1775-1976. Bicentennial Edition. Boyertown Publishing Co., 1976 |
  | McGuinn, William F., and Bazelon, Bruce S. American Military Button Makers and Dealers; Their Backmarks & Dates. W. F. McGuinn, 1984 |
  | Van Court, Donald P. Transportation Uniform Buttons, Vol. III: Maritime and Aviation. Donald P. Van Court, 1998 |
  | Leighton, Richard M., and Coakley, Robert W. United States Army In World War II, The War Department, Global Logistics and Strategy 1940-1943. Office of Chief of Military History, Department of Army, 1955 |
  | Emerson, William K. Encyclopedia of United States Army Insignia and Uniforms. University of Oklahoma Press, 1996 |
  | Gibson, Charles Dana. Over Seas: U.S. Army Maritime Operations, 1898 Through the Fall of the Philippines. Ensign Press, 2002 |
  | Grover, David H. U.S. Army Ships and Watercraft of World War II 1st edition. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1987 |
  | Masterson, James R. U. S. Army Transportation In The Southwest Pacific Area 1941-1947. BiblioGov, 2013. |
  | U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office. Merchant Marine House Flags and Stack Insignia: H.O. Pub. No. 100. U.S. Navy, 1961 |
  | U.S. Navy Bureau of Navigation. U.S. Navy Uniform Regulations: 1941. U.S. Navy, 1941 |
| 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 | |
  | Andrews, Lewis M., Jr. Tempest, Fire And Foe: Destroyer Escorts in World War II and the Men Who Manned Them. Charleston, SC; Narwhal Press, 1999 |
| 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 and Stevens, R. H. (Translator). 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. Hawsepipe 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 | |
| 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 and Gwyer, M. (Translator). 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, Maryland: 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 | |
| Edwards, Kenneth. Operation Neptune. London: Collins, 1946 | |
| Elliot, Peter. Allied Escort ships of World War II: A Complete Survey. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1977 | |
| Felknor, Bruce L. (Editor) The U.S. Merchant Marine at War, 1775-1945. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1998 | |
| 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 | |
| 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, Vermont: 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, Maryland: 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Hickam, Homer H., Jr. Torpedo Junction: U-Boat War off America’s East Coast, 1942. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1989 | |
| Hough, Richard. the Greatest Crusade: Roosevelt, Churchill, 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 | |
| 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 and Currie, Jack. Convoy: Merchant Sailors at War, 1939-1945. Annapolis, Maryland: 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, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1959 | |
| Macintyre, Donald. Battle of the Atlantic. London: Pan Books, 1969 | |
| Macintyre, Donald. U-Boat Killer. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1956 | |
| Mason, Frank W. Q-Boat. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1943 | |
| 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, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1989 | |
| Milner, Marc. The U-boat Hunters: the Royal Canadian Navy and the offensive against Germany’s submarines, 1943-1945. Annapolis, Maryland: 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, 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 | |
| Piekalkeiwicz, Janusz and Spurgeon, Peter (Translator). 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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, Colorado: 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, Vermont: Ashgate, 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, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1989 | |
| Taylor, Theodore. Fire on the Beaches. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1958 | |
| 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 | |
| _______, 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. Ministry of Defence, 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Whalen, Jim. Last of the Boom Ships, Oral Histories of the U.S. Merchant Marine 1927-2000. 1st Books Library, 2000 | |
| 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, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1997-1998 |