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- Harris,Bomber Offensive, 43–4.
- Register, 325.
- Richards,The Hardest Victory, 89.
- Note from Prime Minister to Secretary of State for Air and Chief of the Air Staff, 4
August 1940. - Eric J. Grove, ed.,The Defeat of the Enemy Attack on Shipping, 1939–1945(Aldershot: Navy
Records Society, 1997), 221, 224. - Richards,The Hardest Victory, 80.
- Winston Spencer Churchill,The Grand Alliance(Boston: Houghton Miflin, 1948), 123–6.
- Grove,Defeat of the Enemy Attack on Shipping, 38–9. For the war as a whole surface raiders
accounted for 188 ships lost out of a total of 4066 lost to all enemy action. U-boats
sank 69 percent of the total. George Malcolm Thompson,The Vote of Censure(New York:
Stein and Day, 1968), 114. Churchill,The Grand Alliance, 123–6; Richards,The Hardest
Victory, 82. - Messenger,‘Bomber’ Harris, 62.
- Richard Garrett,Scharnhorst and Gneisenau: The Elusive Sisters(New York: Hippocrene Books,
1978), 77. - Richards,The Hardest Victory, 80–1.
- Peter Kemp,The Escape of the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau(Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press,
1975), 12–3. - Ibid., 92–4, 101–2.
- For accounts of the Channel Dash, see Garrett,Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, 92–111; Kemp,
Escape of the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, 41–72; and Peter C. Smith,Hold the Narrow Sea: Naval
Warfare in the English Channel, 1939–1945 (Anapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1984),
141–55. - John Kilbracken,Bring Back My Stringbag: Swordfish Pilot at War, 1940–1945(London: Leo
Cooper, 1996), 63–5; John Winton, ed.,The War at Sea: The British Navy in World War II
(New York: William Morrow, 1968), 179. - Register, 104.
- Kilbracken,Bring Back My Stringbag, 64–5.
- Ministry of Information,Fleet Air Arm(London: HMSO, 1943), 71. In one of the ironies
of war, Esmonde had won the DSO for his part in theBismarckaffair. His investment in
the Order was held at Buckingham Palace on 11 February, less than 24 hours before his
death over the Channel. - Winton,The War at Sea, 27–9, 140.
- Kevin Jefferys, The Churchill Coalition and Wartime Politics, 1940–1945 (Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 1991), 86–7. - Excerpts from the Diary of Sir Henry Channon, 18 December 1941, 9 January 1942,
20 January 1942, 21 January 1942. Quoted in Kevin Jefferys, ed.,War and Reform:
British Politics During the Second World War(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994),
69–70. - Roger Parkinson, Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat:The War History from Dunkirk to Alamein,
Based on the War Cabinet Papers of 1940 to 1942(New York: David McKay, 1973), 362–3;
Winston Spencer Churchill,The Hinge of Fate(Boston: Houghton Miflin, 1948) 60–4, 71. - David Jablonsky,Churchill, The Great Game, and Total War(London: Frank Cass, 1991), 107.
- Churchill,The Hinge of Fate, 81.
- Parkinson,Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat, 368.
- Jefferys,Churchill Coalition, 92.