The Ships of Battlegroup: Bibliography

NOTE: The web was also vigorously surfed, hitting many different sites that were not recorded but which did provide various individual scraps of information.

Bishop, Chris, General Editor The Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II. Barnes & Noble, Inc, 1998.

Blundell, W. D. G. Royal Navy Battleships, 1895 - 1946. Almark Publishing Co., Ltd., 1973.

Blundell, W. D. G. Royal Navy Warships, 1939 - 1945. Almark Publishing Co., Ltd., 1970.

Breyer, Siegfried Battleships and Battle Cruisers 1905 - 1970. Doubleday & Company Inc., 1973 (English Language version, translated from the German by Alfred Kurti).

Breyer, Siegfried Battleships of the World. Conway Maritime Press Ltd., 1980 (English Language version, with revisions).

Chesnau, Roger. Aircraft Carriers of the World: 1914 to the Present. Naval Institute Press, 1984.

Colledge, J. J. Ships of the Royal Navy, Volume 1. Augustus M. Kelley, Publishers, 1969.

Couhart, Jean Labayle. French Warships of World War II. Ian Allen, 1978.

Dulin, Jr., Robert O., Garzke, Jr., William H. and Sumrall, Robert F. United States Battleships in World War II. Naval Institute Press, 1976.

Dull, Paul S. A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy (1941–1945). Naval Institute Press, 1978.

Dupuy, Trevor N., Johnson, Curt and Bongard, David L. The Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography. HarperCollins Publishers, 1992.

Fitzsimons, Bernard, Editor The Illustrated Encyclopedia of 20th Century Weapons and Warfare. Purnell & Sons Ltd, 1967 (24 volumes).

Fraccaroli, Aldo Italian Warships of World War II. Ian Allen, 1979.

Friedman, Norman Battleship Design and Development 1905–1945. Mayflower Books, 1978.

Friedman, Norman U. S. Battleships. Naval Institute Press, 1985.

Hodges, Peter The Big Gun: Battleship Main Armament, 1860–1945. Naval Institute Press, 1981.

Ireland, Bernard Jane’s Battleships of the 20th Century. HarperCollins Publishers, 1996.

Lyon, Hugh The Encyclopedia of the World’s Warships. Crescent Books, 1978.

Magnusson, Magnus, General Editor Cambridge Biographical Dictionary. Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Preston, Anthony (Forward) Jane’s Fighting Ships of World War II. Military Press, 1989.

Silverstone, Paul H. U. S. Warships of World War II. Doubleday & Company, Inc.

Smith, Peter C. British Battle Cruisers. Almark Publishing Co., Ltd., 1970.

Stern, Robert C. U. S. Battleships in Action, Part 1. Squadron/Signal Publications, Inc. 1980.

Stern, Robert C. U. S. Battleships in Action, Part 2. Squadron/Signal Publications, Inc. 1984.

Sturton, Ian, Editor. All the World’s Battleships: 1905 to the Present. Conway Maritime Press, 1996.

Thomas, David A. Battles and Honours of the Royal Navy. Leo Cooper, 1998.

Terzibaschitsch, Stefan Aircraft Carriers of the U. S. Navy. Second Edition. The Naval Institute Press, 1989.

Terzibaschitsch, Stefan Battleships of the U. S. Navy in World War II. Bonanza Books, 1979 (translated and adapted by Heinz O. Vetters and Richard Cox).

Watts, Anthony J. Japanese Warships of World War II. Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970.

Worth, Richard Fleets of World War II. Da Capo Press, 2001.

For World War I era battleships and battlecruisers that were kept and served in World War II see: Andrea Doria, Arkansas, Bretagne, Caio Duilio, Conte di Cavour, Fuso, Giulio Cesare, Haruna, Hiei, Hood, Hyuga, Ise, Kirishima, Kongo, Maryland, Mississippi, Mutsu, Nagato, Pennsylvania, Repulse, Revenge, Texas, Warspite and Yamashiro.

For battleships commissioned between World War One and September 1939, see: Dunkerque, Nelson, Gneisenau and Scharnhorst.

For aircraft carriers built before World War II see: Akagi, Ark Royal, Bearn, Enterprise, Hermes, Hiryu, Kaga, and Soryu.

For ships built during the Second World War (September 1939 through August 1945, see: Alabama, Bismarck, Guam, Hornet (CV-12), Intrepid (CV-11), Iowa, King George V, Lexington (CV-16), Littorio, Massachusetts, Missouri, Musashi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Richelieu, Roma, Shokaku, Tirpitz, Victorious, Vittorio Veneto, Washington, Wisconsin, Yamato, Yorktown (CV-10), Zuiho and Zuikaku.

For ships that were never actually commissioned, see: Aquila and Graf Zeppelin.