Authors Dorf - Dorr
Dorfman, Allan
A House at War. Xlibrus, 2000. 492 pages
Cover: a ship and a family do battle against the sea and the Nazis.
Dorgelès, Roland (1886-1973)
Departure. Simon and Schuster, 1928. 381 pages
Translation of Partir. Passenger-ship bound for the Orient is a microcosm of post-War France: tourists and crooks, an operatic troupe and two rival business partners
Dorling, Henry Taprell (Taffrail) (1883-1968)
Pincher Martin, O.D : a story of the inner life of the Royal Navy. Chambers, 1916. 340 pages
Great War adventures.
A Little Ship. Chambers, 1918. 337 pages
A naval officer tells of his experiences at sea during World War I.
H.M.S. anonymous. H. Jenkins, 1920. 320 pages
Oh, Joshua! Hodder and Stoughton, 1920. 318 pages
Michael Bray. Hodder and Stoughton, 1925. 333 pages
Pirates. Hodder and Stoughton, 1929. 311 pages
An account of British gunboats tackling piracy in the Canton delta.
Shipmates. Hodder and Stoughton, 1929. 316 pages
Tales of life in the British Merchant Marines.
Endless Story : being an account of the work of the destroyers, flotilla-leaders, torpedo-boats and patrol boats in the great war. Hodder and Stoughton, 1931. 451 pages
Destroyers in WW I
Kerrell. Hodder and Stoughton, 1931. 319 pages
First lieutenant of a destroyer in action in the North Sea and with the Dover Patrol in WW I. Good substantial naval action story.
Cypher K. Hodder and Stoughton, 1932. 315 pages
A book for older boys, The latest cypher is stolen from a RN cruiser and a retired naval officer in his sailing yacht manages to retrieve it.
The Scarlet Stripe : being the adventures of a naval surgeon. Hodder and Stoughton, 1932. 310 pages
Naval surgeon adrift in life-boat with 22 men after their Q ship is sunk by U-boat in WW I.
The Man from Scapa Flow. Hodder and Stoughton, 1933. 320 pages
The ships of the German Fleet were scuttled by their own crews at Scapa Flow in the Orkneys. A German who is posing as British attempts to obtain articles from the safe of the raised 'Prinzregent Rudolf'.
Dover-Ostend : A cross-channel thriller. Hodder and Stoughton, 1933. 351 pages
Piracy in the English Channel is resolved by a naval officer. Included are charts so the reader can follow the action which involves lots of coastal cruising aboard the officer's yacht.
Seventy North. Hodder and Stoughton, 1934. 319 pages
Plenty of statistics and social history are interestingly incorporated into a readable story involving a Hull trawler fishing in the arctic prior to WW II. Although written in the style of the day, reading the book now graphically illustrates how the importance and impact of fishing on the community has been eroded today.
Second Officer. Hodder and Stoughton, 1935. 310 pages
Gives the reader an accurate picture of the pleasant side of life in the Merchant Navy of the day. Large general cargo ships voyage London - Panama - Pacific to New Zealand with adventures on the way.
Mid-Atlantic. Hodder and Stoughton, 1936. 318 pages
With this story the author takes up the cudgels on behalf of the merchant seamen of Great Britain during the Depression. Sailing aboard an ill-found tramp the unfailing courage and heroic tenacity of her people fail to save her after steering failure in severe weather. Plenty of technical, social and background detail.
The Mystery at Milford Haven. Hodder and Stoughton, 1936. 320 pages
A maritime murder mystery
Mystery Cruise. Hodder and Stoughton, 1937. 320 pages
Naval Intelligence track down and recover stolen state secrets, with the aid of the Royal Navy, from a merchantman off the Danish coast in this pre-war spy thriller. Really only 25% nautical.
Operation 'M.O.' Hodder and Stoughton, 1938. 228 pages
Naval Intelligence track down and recover stolen state secrets, with the aid of the Royal Navy, from a merchantman off the Danish coast in this pre-war spy thriller. Really only 25% nautical.
The Shetland Plan. Hodder and Stoughton, 1939. 256 pages
Pre-WW2 thriller.
Fred Travis A.B. Hodder and Stoughton, 1939. 336 pages
Naval action off the Spanish coast during the Spanish Civil War.
Chenies. Hodder and Stoughton, 1943. 282 pages
Two serving officers of the above name in the Royal Navy in the early years of WW2. Destroyer patrol, convoy duties, bad weather, U-boats and torpedoed ships combine to make a patriotic yarn. As the blurb says, Taffrail's first novel of the navy in action in WW2. U.S. title: White Ensigns
Eurydice. Hodder and Stoughton, 1953. 286 pages
The Royal Navy destroyer HMS EURYDICE, badly damaged and only just afloat, survives the battle of the Java Sea and by evading the omnipresent Japanese Navy, survives to seek shelter at a small island in the Japanese dominated Eastern Archipelago
Arctic Convoy. Hodder and Stoughton, 1956. 315 pages
A story strongly based on fact. The Arctic convoys to North Russia from the perspective of a young officer serving in a destroyer.
Naval Sketches and Stories:
Carry On! C.A. Pearson, 1916. 122 pages
Stand By! C.A. Pearson, 1916. 120 pages
Off Shore. C.A. Pearson, 1917. 121 pages
Sea, Spray and Spindrift. C.A. Pearson, 1917. 159 pages
Naval yarns for boys.
Minor Operations. C.A. Pearson, 1917. 120 pages
The Watch Below. C.A. Pearson, 1918. 121 pages
Dorris, Michael (1945-1997) and Erdrich, Louise (1954- )
The Crown of Columbus. HarperCollins, 1991. 382 pages
An anthropologist discovers Columbus' lost diary and reference to "the greatest treasure of Europe", so it's off to the Caribbean.