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| 802 | HOBDAY, Geoffrey. In Harm’s Way: A RNVR Officer at War 1940-1944. 224p., illus., index. London: Imperial War Museum, 1985. ISBN: 0901627305.
Hobday served on the Armed Boarding Vessel Maron and in Contraband Control until 1941 when he moved to Coastal Forces. He gives a good account of small boat warfare in the North Sea, Channel and Mediterranean where he commanded MGB 643 in 1943-44. He was briefly Directing Officer of Stayner in home waters in 1944 before taking command of MTB 725. |
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| 803 | JEFFERSON, David. Coastal Forces at War: Royal Navy 'Little Ships' in World War 2. 208p., bibliog., illus., index. Sparkford: PSL, 1996. ISBN: 1852604999.
A study of the ships, the crews, and the actions. A well-researched and readable account. A second edition was published by Haynes in 2008. |
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| 804 | MACNEE, Patrick. Blind in One Ear [by] Patrick Macnee and Marie Cameron. [iv], 298p., illus., index. London: Harrap, 1988. ISBN: 024554674X.
The autobiography of an actor. Two chapters cover his war in MTBs. |
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| 805 | PICKLES, Harold. Untold Stories of Small Boats at War: Coastal Forces Veterans Remember. xii, 232p., illus. Bishop Auckland: Pentland, 1994. ISBN: 185821176X.
A collection of anecdotes, articles and stories from the newsletter of the Coastal Forces Veterans Association. Covers all theaters, but dominated by home waters. |
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| 806 | SCOTT, Peter. The Battle of the Narrow Seas: A History of the Light Coastal Forces in the Channel and North Sea 1939-1945. xii, 228p., illus., index. London: Country Life, 1945; New York: Scribner's, 1946.
The author was a distinguished participant in this bitterly fought campaign. This is a full, authorised and semi-official account of the work of Coastal Forces. Reprinted by White Lion in 1974. |
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| 807 | 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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| 808 | ASPINALL-OGLANDER, Cecil. Roger Keyes: Being the Biography of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes of Zeebrugge and Dover, GCB, KCVO, CMG, DSO. xv, 478p., illus., index. London: Hogarth, 1951.
Keyes returned to the Navy in 1940 and after liaison work in Belgium created the new Combined Operations Directorate. He was relieved of this command in 1941 as a result of political disagreements and resumed his seat in Parliament. He later received a peerage before his death in 1945. A rather uncritical account of a major figure. |
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| 809 | BADEN-POWELL, Dorothy. Operation Jupiter: SOE's Secret War in Norway. 208p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Hale, 1982. ISBN: 070919367X. A member of the Scandinavian section of SOE recounts the many operations mounted in Norway, often with a naval component. |
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| 810 | BARTLETT, Merrill L. Assault from the Sea: Essays on the History of Amphibious Warfare. xx, 453p., bibliog., illus., index. Annapolis: NIP, 1983. ISBN: 0870210882.
A series of 51 essays reprinted from various journals and ranging from Marathon to the Falklands. It has relevant material on Sealion, the German invasion of Norway, Dieppe, and D-Day. |
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| 811 | BUCKLEY, Christopher. Norway: The Commandos: Dieppe (The Second World War, 1939-1945. A Popular Military History by Various Authors in Eight Volumes). viii, 276p., illus., index. London: HMSO, 1951.
Covers all the amphibious operations in Northern Europe before the Normandy Invasion. |
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| 812 | CHERRY, Niall. Striking Back: Britain's Airborne and Commando Raids 1940-1942. 422p., bibliog., illus., index. Solihull: Helion, 2009. ISBN: 1906033250.
Describes the setting up of Special Forces then their training and gives accounts of some of the less well known operations. Almost half of the book consists of appendices, mostly reprinting contemporary operational reports and plans. |
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| 813 | CLIFFORD, Kenneth J. Amphibious Warfare Development in Britain and America from 1920-1940. x, 302p., bibliog., index. Edgewood: Laurens, 1983. ISBN: 0533053706.
A Reserve Marine Corps Colonel makes a comparative study of policy and decision making in the inter-war years. |
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| 814 | COOK, F. N. Operation Biting: The Naval Story of the Bruneval Raid, February 1942 (Monograph 157). 15p., illus. Sydney: Naval Historical Society of Australia, 1997.
The naval component of the Commando raid to gather intelligence on German radar capability. |
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| 815 | CRESWELL, John. Generals and Admirals: The Story of Amphibious Command. viii, 192p., illus., index. London: Longmans Green, 1952.
A re-examination of a number of amphibious operations drawn from the last 400 years, concerned with questions of command and the relationships of the various forces involved. The major assaults in Western Europe, from Narvik to Normandy, are considered. |
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| 816 | DEVINS, Joseph H. The Vaagso Raid: The Commando Attack that Changed the Course of World War II. 222p., illus., index. London: Hale; Philadelphia: Chilton, 1967.
A description of the Christmas 1941 raid. Apart from the lessons learned about combined operations, the book claims that this was the start of Hitler’s Norwegian fixation, which affected German strategy. |
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| 817 | FELL, W. R. The Sea Our Shield. [8], 232p., illus. London: Cassell, 1966.
The war memoirs of an officer who spent his war in Combined Operations and in midget submarines. |
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| 818 | FERGUSSON, Bernard. The Watery Maze: The Story of Combined Operations. 445p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Collins; New York: Holt Rinehart, 1961.
A general but very interesting account and a standard work. |
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| 819 | FOXALL, Raymond. The Amateur Commandos. 159p., illus. London: Hale, 1980. ISBN: 0860095916.
How two members of the Army Dental Corps determined to see action and made a private raid on France in 1942. A full account of a madcap scheme. Reprinted in paperback in 1982 as Against All Odds. |
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| 820 | GREAT BRITAIN. Ministry of Information. Combined Operations 1940-1942. 144p., illus. London: HMSO; New York: Macmillan, 1943.
An accurate and truthful account within the limits of wartime security. It describes all of the best-known operations and gives some account of the formation and training of the Commandos. |
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| 821 | GUILLOU, Michel. Operation "Fahrenheit": The Story of a Small-Scale Commando Raid from Dartmouth to the Pointe de Plouezec. (Dartmouth History Research Group, Paper 20). viii, 32p., illus. Dartmouth: Dartmouth History Research Group, 1996. ISBN: 1899011102.
Describes a small 1942 raid on a signal station in Brittany. |
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