| Entry Text: | SCOTT, Peter. The Eye of the Wind. xxii, 679p., illus., index. London: Hodder; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961.
An autobiography with 250 pages on WWII. Scott was a RNVR officer who served on Broke during the Fall of France and then in the Atlantic (including the Comorin rescue). Early in 1942 he moved to Coastal Forces in Steam Gun Boat 9. He took part in the Dieppe Raid, then in 1944 moved to the staff as an organiser of Coastal Forces operations. In 1945 he moved to the then building Cardigan Bay. He wrote the official history of Coastal Forces. The rest of the book charts his subsequent fame. |
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