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MAIN HEADINGS SUB HEADINGS MAIN HEADINGS SUB HEADINGS
Combined Operations Combined Operations - General Royal Marine Commandos Royal Marines - General
Commandos - General R M Commandos - General
Commandos - Memoirs 41 RM Commando
47 RM Commando
48 RM Commando
       
    Specific Operations Operation Biting - Brunival
      Operation Overlord D-Day
Army Commandos Army Commandos - General   Dieppe
No 4 Commando Cockleshell Heroes
No 8 Commando Operation Musketoon Glomfjord
No 10 (IA) Commando Operation Chariot - St Nazaire
No. 4 (Belgian) Troop Op Archery - Vaagso & Malloy
Other Forces [not specified elsewhere] Operation Infatuate Walcheren & the Scheldt
      Other Raids
   
   
Biographies Other [Mulberry, PLUTO etc]
       
   
   

 ~ COMBINED OPERATIONS ~
 ~ Combined Operations - General ~
Author Title (Series) Publisher, Date & Information
Hilary St.George Saunders Combined Operations : the official story of the Commandos. New York : Macmillan, 1943 : xiii, 155 p
Bernard Fergusson The Watery Maze : the story of Combined Operations London : Collins, 1961 : 445 p
James D. Ladd Combined Operations London : Dragon Grafton Books, 1986 : 48 p : ISBN 0-583-31004-4 : [Modern military techniques]
Ministry of Information Combined Operations 1940 -1942 London, HMSO : 144 p
Geoffrey Sanders Soldier, Sailor 1947 by the Bombardment Units Association (COBUs) :  [Foreword by Major-General R. E. Laycock, C.B, D.S.O.]
Major-General John Frost A Drop Too Many [from Iraq Levies to major airborne operations in which he took part - Bruneval, Tunisia, Sicily, Italy, Arnhem.]
 ~ Commandos - General ~
Stuart Allan Commando Country The author is Senior Curator of Military History at the National War Museum, Edinburgh Castle. The book tells the story of Scotland's role in the training of Commandos and Special Operations personnel in WW2. Click here for more information.
James Dunning It Had To Be Tough Pentland : ISBN 1-85821-748-2 : [Commando training, very interesting & detailed. Author was a Commando CSM at Dieppe and finished as a Major.]
Hilary St. George Saunders The Green Beret : the story of the Commandos London : Joseph, 1949 : 320 p
Hodding Carter The Commandos of World War II New York : Random House, [1966] : 168 p [juvenile literature]
James Ladd Commandos and Rangers of World War II London : Macdonald & Jane's, 1978 : 288 p : ISBN 0-356-08432-9
Rupert Butler Hand of Steel : the story of the Commandos Feltham : Hamlyn, 1980 : 261 p : ISBN 0-600-38387-3
Charles Messenger The Commandos, 1940-1946 London : Kimber, 1985 : 447 p : ISBN 0-7183-0553-1
Leroy Thompson British Commandos in Action Carrollton, Tx : Squadron/ Signal Publications, 1987 : 49 p : ISBN 0-89747-192-X : [Combat troops in action ; 8]
Derek Oakley The Commandos : World War Two to the Present London : Arms & Armour Press, 1987 : 72 p : ISBN 0-85368-844-3 : [Uniforms illustrated ; 2]
Ken Ford D-Day Commando  Published in the UK in 2003 by Sutton P.Ltd : ISBN 0-7509-3023-3 : [From Normandy to the river Maas. It also describes the part of 48 RMC in the liberation of Walcheren]
Contre-Amiral Lepotier Raiders from the Sea William Kimber, London 1954

Donald Gilchrist

Castle Commando (Achnacarry) Available from The West Highland Museum, Cameron Square, Fort William, PH33 6AJ for £12.99.  01397 702169.
Lt Col Peter Young Storm from the Sea William Kimber 1958
 ~ Commandos - Memoirs ~
James Alan Thompson Only the Sun Remembers London : Dakers, 1950 : 275 p
John Durnford-Slater Commando London : Kimber, 1953 : 222 p : [No 3 Commando; Commando Group HQ]
Derek Mills-Roberts Clash by Night : a Commando Chronicle London : Kimber, 1956 : 204 p : [No 4 Commando; No 6 Commando; 1st Special Service/Commando Brigade]
 ~ ARMY COMMANDOS ~
 ~ Army Commandos - General ~
Author Title (Series) Publisher, Date & Information
Stuart Allan Commando Country The author is Senior Curator of Military History at the National War Museum, Edinburgh Castle. The book tells the story of Scotland's role in the training of Commandos and Special Operations personnel in WW2. Click here for more information.
Robin Neillands The Raiders : the Army Commandos 1940-1946 London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989 : xi, 242 p : ISBN 0-297-79426-4
Mike Chappell Army Commandos 1940 1945 London : Osprey, 1996 : 64p : ISBN 1-85532-579-9 : [Elite series ; 64]
 ~ No 4 Commando ~
James Dunning The Fighting Fourth: Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2003 : ISBN 0750930950 : [ No 4 Commando at War 1940-1945]
Murdoch C. McDougall Swiftly They Struck London : Odhams Press, 1954 : 208 p : [the story of No. 4 Commando]
Donald Gilchrist Don't Cry for Me London : Hale, 1982 : 192 p : ISBN 0-7091-9148-0 : [the Commando's, D-Day and after]
 ~ No 8 Commando ~
John St. John To the war with Waugh London : Whittingdon, [1973]
London: Leo Cooper, 1974. : xi, 55 x, 55 p : ISBN 0-85052-163-7 : [Author Evelyn Waugh served with No 8 Commando & Tito's partisans]
 ~ No 10 Commando ~
Ian Dear Ten Commando, 1942-1945 London : Leo Cooper, 1987 : 207 p : ISBN 0-85052-121-1
 ~ No 4 (Belgian) Troop ~
Carlo G. Segers Geef ons een slagveld : fragmenten uit de geschiedenis der Belgische commando's [Dutch] Antwerpen : Segers, [1950] : 77p
Carlo G. Segers Donnez-nous un champ de bataille : l'histoire des Commandos belges (1940-1945) [French] [Bruxelles] : De Méyère, [1959] : 188 p
Carlo G. Segers Geef ons een slagveld : fragmenten uit de geschiedenis van de Belgische commando's (1940-1945) [Dutch] Soumagne : André Grisard, 1981 : 302 p
Carlo G. Segers Donnez-nous un champ de bataille  [French] Bruxelles : Didier Hatier, 1984 : 224 p : ISBN 2-87088-526-1 : [Mr. Segers produced at least 7 different versions of his account, each time expanded & corrected (only the first & last ones in Dutch & French are given)]

 ~ ROYAL MARINE COMMANDOS ~
 ~ Royal Marines - General ~
Author Title (Series) Publisher, Date & Information
Tristan Lovering Amphibious Assault: Manoeuvre from the Sea. Seafarer Books 2007 : [All royalties go to the 'Royal Marines 1939 War Fund.']
Ministry of Information The Royal Marines : the Admiralty account of their achievement, 1939-1943 London : His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1944 : 80 p
G.W.M. Grover Short history of the Royal Marines Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1948 : 68 p
Robert Bruce Lockhart The Marines were there : the story of the Royal Marines in the Second World War London : Putnam, 1950 : 229p
A. Cecil Hampshire The Royal Marines tercentenary : formation of the Admiral's Regiment, 1664-1964] [S.l.] : Royal Marines, 1964 (Glasgow : Paramount Press) : xlvi 80 p : [About the Royal Marines 1664-1964]
Patrick Pringle Fighting Marines London : Evans Brothers, 1966 : 192 p : [Fighting Series]
J.L. Moulton The Royal Marines London : Leo Cooper, 1972 : x, 100 p : ISBN 0-85052-117-3 : [Famous regiments]
Peter C. Smith Per Mare, per Terram : a history of the Royal Marines St. Ives, Huntingdon : Photo Precision, 1974 : 191 p : ISBN 0-85944-017-6
James D. Ladd The Royal Marines 1919-1980 : an authorised history London [etc.] : Jane's, 1980 : 482 p : ISBN 0-7106-0011-9
Ian Dear Marines at War London : Ian Allan, 1982 : 128 p : ISBN 0-7110-1147-8
Nick van der Bijl & Paul Hannon The Royal Marines, 1939-93 London : Osprey, 1994 : 64 p : ISBN 1-85532-388-5 : [Elite series ; 57]
 ~ Royal Marine Commandos - General ~
Robin Neillands By Sea and Land London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987 : xviii, 268 p : ISBN 0-297-79064-1 :[ the Royal Marines Commandos : a history, 1942-1982]
 ~ 41 RM Commando ~
Douglas Grant The Fuel of Fire London : The Cresset Press, 1950 : 235 p : [officer's memoirs up to August 1944]
Raymond Mitchell They Did What Was Asked of Them Firebrand Books, Box 327, Poole, Dorset :1996 : 224 p : ISBN 1-85314-205-0 : [41 (Royal Marines) Commando, 1942-1946]
Raymond Mitchell Commando Despatch Rider Barnsley : Le Cooper, 2001 : xvii, 234 p : ISBN 0-85052-797-X :  [with 41 Royal Marines Commando in North-West Europe 1944-1945]
 ~ 47 RM Commando ~
John Forfar From Omaha to the Scheldt : the story of 47 Royal Marine Commando Phantassie, East Linton : Tuckwell Press, 2001 : xv, 400 p : ISBN 1-86232-149-3 : [John Forfar was the Senior Medical Officer attached to 47 RM Commando. For his heroism at Walcheren he was awarded the Military Cross]
 ~ 48 RM Commando ~
[Harold Smedley] 48 Royal Marine Commando : the story 1944-46 [S.l.] : 48 RM Commando, 1946 : 114 p
J.L. Moulton Haste to the battle : a Marine Commando at war London : Cassell, 1963 : xii, 210 p : [Commanding Officer's memoirs]
Ken Ford
D-Day Commando, From Normandy to the Maas with 48 Royal Marine Commando.
Published (2003) by Sutton Publishing Limited : ISBN 7509-3023-3
 ~ Other Forces ~
George Blake Mountain and Flood - The History of the 52nd (Lowland) Division Jackson, Son and Company, Glasgow 1950 : xx, 265 p
Ian Trenowden Stealthily by Night. UK. Crecy. 1995 : 250 p, Ills : [About the COPPists]
Hilary St.George