Hervé Cras (7 August 1910 – 2 November 1980) was a French military and naval historian, who wrote under the pseudonym Jacques Mordal.Giorgio Tourn, 'Jacques Mordal (1910-1980)', ''Culture française'', Vols 28-29, p.59 Born to a sailing family in Evreux, Hervé Cras fought in

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, surviving the

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. He became Director for Historical Studies at the Musée de la Marine, Paris.

Works

* ''La bataille de Dunkerque'', 1948 * ''A la poursuite du Bismarck (18-27 Mai 1941)'', 1948 * ''La campagne de Norvège'', 1949 * ''Cassino'', c.1952 * (with Albert Vulliez) ''La tragique destinée du Scharnhorst'', c.1952. Translated by George Malcolm as ''Battleship Scharnhorst'', 1958. * ''La bataille de Casablanca : 8-9-10 novembre 1942'', 1952 * ''Bir Hacheim: une épopée française'', 1952 * ''La bataille de Dakar'', 1956 * (with Gabriel Auphan) ''La marine française pendant la seconde guerre mondiale'', 1958. Translated by A. C. J. Sabalot as ''The French Navy in World War II'', 1959. * ''Vingt-cinq siècles de guerre sur mer'', 1959. Translated by

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as ''Twenty-five centuries of sea warfare'', 1959. * ''Narvik'', 1960 * ''Dunkerque'', 1960 * ''Les Canadiens à Dieppe'', 1962. Translated by Mervyn Savill as ''Dieppe: the dawn of decision'', 1963. * ''Hold-up naval à Granville'', 1964. * ''La bataille de France, 1944-1945'', 1964. * ''Les poches de l'Atlantique'', 1965. * ''Héligoland : Gibraltar allemand de la Mer du Nord'', 1967. * ''La guerre a commencé en Pologne'', 1968. * ''Versailles'', 1970. * ''Rommel'', 2 vols., 1973.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cras, Herve 1910 births 1980 deaths French military historians French naval historians French military personnel of World War II 20th-century French historians French male non-fiction writers 20th-century French male writers