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severe criticisms of the methods and strategies employed.1005
The maritime war, in all the oceans, is also dealt with in four
exceptionally authoritative volumes.1006 So far we have only
one volume about the secret war of the European resistance
and the English organization supporting it, a theme thoroughly
mashed in less official and less trustworthy books.1007 Finally.
three volumes discuss the military administration of occupied
territories in Germany. Italy and the far east.1003

Three books need to be interposed here; they deal with the
same sort of themes as the military series of the Official History
and do the job as well or better, but were undertaken apart
from that sponsored enterprise. Shepperd fills a gap in the
official series where the Italian campaign still awaits treat-
ment.1009 Cowing tells the fascinating and vitally important
story of the atom bomb, so far as the story is a British one.1010
And Howard disposes of many somewhat self-satisfied accounts
of the alleged farsighted policy pursued by Churchill and the
British in the teeth of shortsighted American opposition,
though he does not by any means in the process lengthen the
American vision, either.1011

The achievement of the military series is impressive enough,

1005 Charles K Webster and Noble Franldand, The Strategic Air Offen-
sive against Germany, 1939-1945, 4 vols. 1961. Pp. viii3 522; ix,
322; ix, 332; xiii, 530. Rev: EHR 79, 132!!".

lo°* Stephen W. Roskill, The War at Sea, 4 vols. 1954, 1956, 1960,
1961. Pp. xxiii, 664; xvii, 523; xvi, 413; xvii, 502. Rev: EHR 77,
4i3f,; 78, s8if.

1007 M, R, D. Foot, S.O.E. in France. 1966, Pp» xxvii, 550.

loos pm g. V. Donnison, Civil Affairs and Military Government, North-
West Europe 1945 - 1946. 1961* Pp. xviii, 518 - C. R. S* Harris,
Allied Military Administration of Italy 9 1943 - 1945* 1957. Pp« xv,
479. - F. S. V. Donnison, British Military Admmstratwn in the
Far East, 1943-194$. 1956. Pp. xviii, 483.

lto* G. A. Shepperd, The Italian Campaign, 1943 - 1945: apolitical and
military re-assessment. L: Barker: 1968. Pp. xiii, 450. Rev: Hist

1010 Margaret M. Growing, Britain and Atomic Energy, 19.39 - ^5. L:
Macmillan: 1964. Pp. xvi, 464. Rev: EHR 81, 437f.

1811 Michael E. Howard, The Mediterranean Strategy in the Second
World War. L: Wekienfcld: 1968. Pp. xii, 83.