Hervé Cras

Hervé Cras was a French military and naval historian, who wrote under the pseudonym Jacques Mordal.
Born to a sailing family in Evreux, Hervé Cras fought in World War II, surviving the Dunkirk evacuation. He became Director for Historical Studies at the Musée de la Marine, Paris.

Works

La bataille de Dunkerque, 1948A la poursuite du Bismarck , 1948La campagne de Norvège, 1949Cassino, c.1952La tragique destinée du Scharnhorst, c.1952. Translated by George Malcolm as Battleship Scharnhorst, 1958.La bataille de Casablanca : 8-9-10 novembre 1942, 1952Bir Hacheim: une épopée française, 1952 La bataille de Dakar, 1956La 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 Len Ortzen as Twenty-five centuries of sea warfare, 1959.Narvik, 1960Dunkerque, 1960Les 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.