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Resources - Books
While containing much information that users may find useful and interesting, this website is not and cannot be comprehensive with respect to either the U.S. Navy Armed Guard or the U.S. merchant marine. There are many other resources available for anyone wishing to pursue additional information. Follow the links below to find some of the more prominent resources. Internet searches and public and university libraries will produce still more sources of information. Please contact the webmaster if you know of additional resources that could be listed here.
Books about the Armed Guard and the merchant marine (many out of print but may be available used or at libraries; links will open in a new browser window)
- Abandoned Convoy: The U.S. Merchant Marine in World War II; The Full Story of The Debacle of Convoy P.Q.-17 by Ferocious O'Flaherty
- Action in the South Atlantic; the Sinking of the German Raider Stier by the Liberty Ship STEPHEN HOPKINS by Gerald Reminick
- Arctic Interlude: Independent to North Russia, by Harry C. Hutson
- At All Costs: How a Crippled Ship and Two American Merchant Mariners Turned the Tide of World War II by Sam Moses
- Battle in the Arctic Seas: The Story of Convoy PQ17 by Theodore Taylor
- Battle Stars and Naval Awards, by J. W. Perkins
- Bloody Winter by John Waters
- The Bluejacket's Manual - 1944, Twelfth Edition by U.S. Navy
- Bluejacket Odyssey: Guadalcanal to Bikini, Naval Armed Guard in the Pacific by William L. McGee
- (A) Careless Word - A Needless Sinking by Arthur R. Moore
- (A) Cold Corner of Hell: The Murmansk Convoys, 1941-1945 by Robert Carse
- Convoy! Drama in Arctic Waters by Paul Kemp
- Convoy - Merchant Sailors at War 1939-1945 by Philip Kaplan and Jack Currie
- Convoy East by Philip McCutchan (fiction)
- Convoy Homeward by Philip McCutchan (fiction)
- Convoy is to Scatter: The Story of PQ17 by John Edgerton Broome
- Convoy North by Philip McCutchan (fiction)
- Convoy of Fear by Philip McCutchan (fiction)
- Convoy South by Philip McCutchan (fiction)
- (The) Destruction of Convoy PQ.17 by David Irving
- Disaster at Bari by Glen Infield
- Eyewitness Accounts of the World War II Murmansk Run, 1941-1945 by Mark Scott
- (The) Fighting Liberty Ships by A.A. Hoehling
- Fireclay - An Autobiography by Thomas R. Bowerman, Sr.
- (The) Forgotten Heroes: The Heroic Story of the United States Merchant Marine by Brian Herbert
- Fourteen Ships: 1937 to 1946: From Ordinary Seaman to Chief Mate by John J Nesbit
- Gallant Ship, Brave Men: The Heroic Story of a WWII Liberty Ship by Herman E. Rosen
- Good Shipmates, The Restoration of the Liberty Ship JOHN W. BROWN; Vols. 1 and 2 by Ernest F. Imhoff
- Great World War II Battles in the Arctic by Mark Llewellyn Evans
- Gunners Get Glory: Lt. Bob Berry’s Story of the Navy's Armed Guard by Lloyd Wendt
- Gunner's Mate by Bob Galati
- Heroes in Dungarees: the Story of the American Merchant Marine in World War II by John Gorley Bunker
- Hitler's
U-Boat War - The Hunted, 1942-1945 by Clay Blair
- Hitler's
U-Boat War - The Hunters, 1939-1942 by Clay Blair
- (The) Hog Islanders: The Story of 122 American Ships by Mark H. Goldberg
- Jig How: A Story of the U.S. Navy Armed Guard During World War II by Roy W. Brown
- (The) LANE VICTORY - A Victory Ship in War and in Peace by Capt. Walter W. Jaffee
- (The) Last Liberty - The Biography of the SS
JEREMIAH O'BRIEN by Capt. Walter W. Jaffee
- (The) Last Mission Tanker by Capt. Walter W. Jaffee
- (The) Last Voyage of the SS Henry Bacon by Robert I. Alotta and Donald R. Foxvog
- Liberty - The Ship that Won the War by Peter Elphick
- Liberty Ship - The Voyages of the JOHN W. BROWN 1942-1946 by Sherod Cooper
- (The) Liberty Ships by L.A. Sawyer and W.H. Mitchell
- (The) Liberty Ships from A (A.B. Hammond) to Z (Zona Gale) by Capt. Walter W. Jaffee
- Liberty Ships Eastward by George Elliott
- Liberty Ships, the Ugly Ducklings of World War II by John Gorley Bunker
- Liberty Ship Survivor by Joseph Mazzara
- Maritime Tales of the Sea by William Byrd and Al D'Agostino
- Merchant Mariners at War: An Oral History of World War II by George J. Billy and Christine M. Billy
- Mother Was a Gunner's Mate: World War II in the Waves by Josette Dermody Wingo
- (A) Night Before Christmas by Jacquin Sanders
- Nightmare in Bari - The World War II Liberty Ship Poison Gas Disaster and Cover-up by Gerald Reminick
- No Surrender - True stories of the U.S. Navy Armed Guard in World
War II by Gerald Reminick
- On the Swing Shift: Building Liberty Ships in Savannah by Tony Cope
- Pacific Express - The Critical Role of Military Logistics in World War II by William L. McGee
- Patriots and Heroes, Vols. 1 and 2 - True Stories of the U.S.
Merchant Marine in World War II by Gerald Reminick
- Poisonous Inferno - WWII Tragedy at Bari Harbor by George Southern
- PQ17 Convoy to Hell - the Survivors' Story by Paul Lund and Harry Ludlam
- (The) Sinking of the Laconia and the U-Boat War: Disaster in the Mid-Atlantic by James P. Duffy
- SS JEREMIAH O'BRIEN - The History of a Liberty Ship from the Battle of the Atlantic to the 21st Century by Capt. Walter W. Jaffee
- SS LEOPOLDVILLE Disaster: December 24, 1944 by Allan Andrade
- Swing Shift: Building the Liberty Ships by Joseph Fabry
- (The) Tankers from A (A.W. Peake) to Z (Zephyrhills) by
Capt. Walter W. Jaffee
- (The) Target Ship in Cape Cod Bay by Noel W. Beyle
- Thirteen Desperate Hours by Marill Johnson (fiction)
- To the Flag! A Selection of Patriotic & Military Verse by Steven C. Myers
- Torpedo Junction: U-Boat War off America's East Coast, 1942 by Homer H. Hickam
- Unsung Sailors - The Naval Armed Guard in World War II by Justin E. Gleichauf
- (The) U.S. Merchant Marine at War, 1775 - 1945 edited by Bruce L Felknor
- U.S. Merchant Vessel War Casualties of World War II by Robert M. Browning, Jr.
- (The) Victory Ships from A (Aberdeen Victory) to Z (Zanesville Victory) by Capt. Walter W. Jaffee
- (A) Voyage to Abadan by Bill Jopes
- (The) Watery Hell by Ray Thompson (fiction)
- We Delivered! by Lyle E. Dupra
- Why Me, Lord? by William A. Carter
- (A) Winning Team! The Armed Guard and the Merchant Marine in World War II by Bob Galati
- Woody, Cisco, and Me: Seamen Three in the Merchant Marine by Jim Longhi
- Armed Guard Bibliography
- Armed Guard Books and Tapes
- Merchant Marine Books, Magazines and Videos compiled by www.usmm.org
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