The first collected historical account of the engagement was published in 1947, in George Hermon Gill's "Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942", the first of two RAN-oriented volumes in the government-sponsored "Australia in the War of 1939–1945" series. Because of the scope of the book, the account of the battle itself was brief, and Gill accepts the German interpretation of events while blaming Burnett for endangering his ship. The account is described by naval historian Tom Frame as "bland and unemotional", and "necessarily superficial", but Gill's analysis of the battle is attacked by Frame as "seriously flawed, inconsistent and contradictory". Several biographical and autobiographical works which touched on the battle (including books by Detmers and former "Sydney" commander John Collins) were also published around this time: none of these contributed new information.