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Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx
Anyone here read any of the HMSO published Official Histories books? (HMSO = Her Majesty's Stationery Office) eg
The War at Sea
Stephen Wentworth Roskill
What do you think of them?...
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A few of these have been digitised at
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/index.html with the HMSO ones at
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/UN/UK/index.html if you want an online preview of what is in them. It is possible that these have been the source of the ebooks that are appearing. It also may be that there are better sites with the HMSO documents, it would seem strange if the UK Government has not digitised their war histories in the manner that some other countries have; but if so I have not found them???
There is much other WII material on the above site especially with respect to American operations and, for example, direct links to digitised books in other collections such as our own extensive Australian (Australian War Memorial site) and NZ (NZ Electronic Text Collection) ones.
While I mention HMSO Hyperwar ones in case you want to preview them, also if there is anyone around interested enough it is easy enough with the expenditure of a little time to create ones own ebooks from the online source. Open the source of each chapter, etc of the online book (in Internet Explorer menu View>Source and save that as .htm. Two example options to get to epub (or whatever); 1. copy the htm files to Calibre (in which they will appear as .zip) and convert each to epub, then merge them all into a book with epub merge plugin, or 2. build the ebook with the .htms in Calibre's Editor. My understanding is that HMSO copyright is fine being publication plus 50 years with just a credit needed in the book created.
John