Sink the Bismarck
January 2nd, 2009 From
>From: John Snyder
>Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 20:45:02 -0800
>To: mahan@microworks.net, MARHST-L@post.queensu.ca
>Subject: Re: Sink the Bismarck
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>The redoubtable Brooks Rowlett wrote:
>
>SNIP
>way home from an assignment of great interest). The Naval War College
>Press published, a few years ago, a book consisting of the officer’s
>report & journal of observation. He had sailed in a British cruiser
>escorting a Sierra Leone convoy in 1940, and was aboard RODNEY intending
>to return home (she was bound for Boston for refit at the time of the
>BISMARCK action). Unfortunately this book is not now in print.>>
>SNIP
>
>I searched the University of California’s electronic library catalog and
>found the book:
>
>Wellings, Joseph H. On his Majesty’s service : observations of the British
>home fleet from the diary, reports, and letters of Joseph H. Wellings,
>assistant U.S. naval attache, London, 1940-41, edited by John B. Hattendorf.
>1st ed. Newport,
>R.I.: Naval War College Press; Washington, D.C.: For sale by the Supt. of
>Docs., U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983. Series title: Historical
>monograph series (Naval War College (U.S.)) ; no. 5.
>
>U.C. has copies at 6 campuses, and there is one at the State Library as well
>(which I shall check out tomorrow!). Thanks, Brooks.
>
>John Snyder
>John_Snyder@bbs.macnexus.org