| Entry Text: | NOLAN, Brian, & STREET, Brian Jeffrey. Champagne Navy: Canada's Small Boat Raiders of the Second World War. xi, 260p., bibliog., illus., index. Toronto: Random House of Canada, 1991. ISBN: 0394221419.
A popular account of the role of Canadians in Coastal Forces and, more fully, the exploits of the two Canadian flotillas in the Channel and the Canadian-commanded flotilla in the Mediterranean. There is a full account of the tragic fire at Ostend in February 1945 which killed 73 and in which a dozen MTBs were lost. |
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