Derek Law's Bibliography

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RIDDELL, John. Fairlie’s Secret War: How One Village Helped Defeat the German U-Boats. xii, 156p., bibliog., illus., index. Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2022. ISBN: 9781839830235,

In late 1940 the Royal Navy’s anti-submarine establishment was moved from Portland to a small village on the Firth of Clyde. This is the previously untold story of what this secret establishment achieved and how it interacted with the local community.