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| 822 | HASTINGS, Nicholas. Round the Next Corner. 190p., frontis. London: Davies, 1949. An autobiography for the years 1939-48. The period is viewed in a series of snapshots, through which the author examines some of the memorable incidents in his career. Called up by the Navy in 1939, he quickly gravitated to Combined Operations where he witnessed several of their operations at first-hand. |
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| 823 | KEMP, Peter. The Thorns of Memory: Memoirs. [vi], 376p., index. London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1990. ISBN: 1856190110.
Tales of an adventurer. After fighting for the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War, he joined British irregular forces for WWII and served in the UK, Albania, Poland, and the Far East. There is a full account of some of the early small-scale raids on the French Coast. |
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| 824 | KEYES, Roger. Amphibious Warfare and Combined Operations (Lees Knowles Lectures 1943). 101p. Cambridge: CUP, 1943.
A review of several combined operations, with the last quarter of the book devoted to WWII. Admiral Keyes was the first Director of the Combined Operations Directorate and responsible for the early wartime raids which are described. A second edition was published in the same year with maps and an additional note on operations in Sicily. |
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| 825 | KEYES, Roger. The Keyes Papers: Selections from the Private and Official Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Baron Keyes of Zeebrugge, Volume III 1939-1945, edited by Paul G. Halpern (Publications of the Navy Record Society, vol. 122). xiv, 398, [vi]p., illus., index. London: Allen & Unwin, 1981. ISBN: 0049421727.
Basic source material and fullest on his period as Director |
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| 826 | LEPOTIER, Adolphe. Raiders from the Sea. 200, [viii]p., illus. London: Kimber, 1954.
A French admiral's account of the Vaagso, Bruneval, St. Nazaire, and Dieppe Raids, which draws some historical parallels. |
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| 827 | MACKSEY, Kenneth. Commando Strike: The Story of Amphibious Raiding in World War II. xxvi, 226p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Cooper, 1985; New York: Stein & Day, 1986. ISBN: 0436270250.
A good general account, which gives a view of American as well as British raiding operations. US title: Commando Hit and Run Combat in World War II. |
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| 828 | MAUND, L. E. H. Assault from the Sea. xvi, 311p., illus., index. London: Methuen, 1949. One of the best accounts, despite its age. A mixture of personal reminiscence and a history of the development of Combined Operations with which the author was much involved, mainly in the Mediterranean and Far East. Maund was also Captain of Ark Royal during the Bismarck operation and includes a first hand account of Ark Royal's involvement. |
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| 829 | MILLAR, George. The Bruneval Raid: Flashpoint of the Radar War. 208p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Bodley Head; New York: Doubleday, 1974. ISBN: 0370102681.
The story of this Combined Operations raid. Also gives much detail on the development of radar. |
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| 830 | MORRIS, Eric. Churchill's Private Armies: British Special Forces in Europe 1939-1942. xvi, 2545p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Hutchinson, 1986. ISBN: 0091619203.
A fascinating account of the formation of special forces by Winston Churchill to assist beleagured Britain during World War II, showing their development and successes as the war developed. |
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| 831 | SAUNDERS, Hilary St. G. Combined Operations. xiii, 155p., illus. New York: Macmillan, 1943.
An American edition of the Ministry of Information pamphlet of the same name. |
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| 832 | SCHOFIELD, Stephen. Musketoon: Commando Raid, Glomfjord 1942. 156p., illus. London: Cape, 1964.
In September 1942, a dozen Commandos were landed by submarine to attack the Glomfjord power station. The attack succeeded, but seven of the raiders were captured and later shot. |
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| 833 | SCOTT, Kenneth. HMS Tormentor 1940-1946: A Brief History. [xii], 242, [1-27]p., illus. Inverness: author, 1991.ISBN: 0952080001.
Tormentor was the Combined Operations training base on the Hamble. This is really a series of reminiscences collected by the author into a coherent structure, but is still basically a collection of anecdotes. |
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| 834 | VAGTS, Alfred. Landing Operations: Strategy, Psychology, Tactics, Politics from Antiquity to 1945. [v], 831p., illus. Washington: Military Service, 1946.
This compendious work includes over 200 pages on WWII, with the information mainly gathered from newspapers and official communiquésés on the war. |
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| 835 | YOUNG, Peter. Commando (Purnell’s History of the Second World War, Weapons Book, no. 7). 160p., bibliog., illus. New York: Ballantine, 1969; London: Macdonald, 1970.
Examines the major raids against Norwegian and French targets from the Lofotens to Dieppe and looks at Layforce in the Mediterranean. Reprinted in 1974 as part of the Pan/Ballantine Illustrated History of World War 2. |
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| 836 | HOLMAN, Gordon. Commando Attack. 160p., illus. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1942.
A war correspondent's view of the commandos and of his own trip with them on the second Lofoten's Raid. A revised edition appeared later the same year with some sparse details of the Commandos' role in the Dieppe raid. |
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| 837 | JOHN, Evan. Lofoten Letter. [vii], 67p., illus. London: Heinemann, 1941.
A description of a raid on the Lofotens by an ex-actor serving with a Special Service Battalion. Originally a letter to his wife, it has been revised for publication. |
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| 838 | MIKES, H. George. The Epic of Lofoten. 79p., illus. London: Hutchinson, [1941].
The story of the Lofoten islanders in wartime, particularly those who took the opportunity of the raid to escape to the UK. |
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| 839 | BATTESON, Ralph. St Nazaire to Shepperton: A Sailor's Odyssey. 172p., illus. Bolsover: Highedge Historical Society, 1996. ISBN: 0952424924.
An autobiography which focuses on the raid and his service as a POW. He was on ML 306. |
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| 840 | CHANT-SEMPILL, Stuart. St. Nazaire Commando. xvi, 204p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Murray, 1985; Novato, Ca.: Presidio, 1987. ISBN: 0719542111.
The raid as seen by one of the commandos who destroyed a drydock pump house. Most of the book describes his experiences as a POW in Germany. |
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| 841 | DORRIAN, James G. Storming St. Nazaire: The Gripping Story of the Dock-Busting Raid, March 1942. xvi, 304p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Cooper, 1998. ISBN: 0850524199.
Records the memories of many of those who took part, with a lively and compelling narrative flow of a raid of great gallantry. |
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