A Midshipman's War

A Young Man in the Mediterranean Naval War, 1941-1943

By Wade, Frank
1994, Cordillera Pub., Vancouver
ISBN 189559006X
Hardcover, 256 pages, 130 photos

Descripton: 130 pictures of naval and merchant ships of many countries, art and maps, name index, ship index by class and country, detailed bibliography of books and interviews. Detailed accounts cover Battle of Crete, Tobruk supply convoys, Syrian campaign, Malta convoys, sinking of battleship Barham by Von Tiesenhausen in U-331, damage to battleships Queen Elizabeth and Valiant in Alexandria harbor by Italian underwater chariots, the Tobruk raid, Sicily invasion and Dodecanese campaign. More information is available on the author's web site.