A heads-up for those interested in the ASW portion of WW2… I received
the latest from the Navy Records Society in this morning’s post:
“The Defeat of the Enemy Attack on Shipping, 1939-1945”, edited
by Eric J. Grove, of the University of Hull (ISBN 1-85928-403-5).
Instead of being a compendium of related papers, this volume is
in fact a “revised edition of the Naval Staff History, Volumes 1A
(Text and Appendices) and 1B (Plans and Tables)”. As per Grove’s
introduction (which is as far as I got…): “…the most powerful
justification of the convoy system of warfare ever written”. There
are updated tables, etc, based on the latest research (as of October,
1996), and for the first time, at least in my collection, there are
_coloured_ graphs and figures in the appendicies.
All-in-all, I suspect that this little volume will be of great
interest to those with a serious interest in this area, and makes
the Naval Staff History, which is *very* difficult to find, available
to all.

Bill Schleihauf
Pierrefonds, Quebec
CANADA
william@cae.ca