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~ COMBINED OPS BOOK SEARCH & READING LIST ~

There are over 200 books about aspects of WW2 Combined Operations listed below most which were recommended by visitors to the website. To view the list click on the main heading or sub heading of your choice (below) or just scroll down the screen.

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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 ~

Geoffrey Tudor	Hoofprints in the Clouds - Jeep Tracks in the Mud	An account of how a group of men came together in Scotland in the late summer of 1943 to form a new mountain battery. Geoffrey Tudor relays his World War II experiences as 'Graham Turner', a second lieutenant with the 1st Mountain Regiment, Royal Artillery. With the formation of 474 Mountain Battery and their initial training in the Scottish mountains, the gunners then cross the Channel to the floods of Holland and through bloody conflicts in northern Germany. Pen Press Publishers, 15 Nov 2008 Paperback 272 Pages. ISBN: 1906206325 £8.99.
Hugh Brewster	On Juno Beach; Canada's D-Day Heroes	The story of Canada's Beach Commandos on Juno Beach ISBN 0439967287
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 Saunders	The Red Beret - The Story of the Parachute Regiment at war 1940 - 45	Michael Joseph Ltd, 26 Bloomsbury St, London W.C.1 October 1950,
William O Darby	We Led the Way: Darby's Rangers	Presidio Press 1980.
David Bercusson	Battalion of Heroes: the Calgary Highlanders in World War II	The Calgary Highlanders Regimental Funds Foundation 1994 : ISBN 0-9694616-1-5.
David Lee	Beachhead Assault	Greenhill Books 2004 : [The Story of the Royal Naval Commandos in WW2. Foreword by Tony Parsons]
Cecil Hampshire	The Beachhead Commandos	William Kimber & Co Ltd in 1983
Malcolm Uren	1000 Men at War - Story of the 2/16th Battalion A.I.F	[Led by Major General Stevens as part of the 21st Australian Infantry Brigade. Details their fighting in the Syrian campaign, the Kododa trail at Gona, New Guinea and Borneo highlighting their audacious heroism during the Battle of Shaggy Ridge]
Hilary St.George Saunders	The Red Beret - The Story of the Parachute Regiment at war 1940 - 45	first published by Michael Joseph Ltd, 26 Bloomsbury St, London W.C.1 October 1950 : ISBN 0 9056 1786
J P Kellett and J Davies	A History of the RAF Servicing Commandos	Airlife 1989
Tom Atkinson	Spectacles, Testicles, Fags and Matches	Luath Press Ltd, Edinburgh 2004 : [the untold story of the RAF Servicing Commandos in World War Two. The author was a member of RAFSC Unit 3210]

~ SPECIFIC OPERATIONS ~

~ Operation Biting -- Bruneval ~

Author	Title (Series)	Publisher, Date & Information
Brian Austin	Schonland - Scientist and Soldier	Institute of Physics Publishing 2001 : ISBN 0 7503 0501 0 : [Subject later became Sir Basil Schonland CBE FRS]
R V Jones	Most Secret War	Wordsworth : ISBN 1-85326-699 : [One full chapter devoted to the raid plus other relevant background information.]
George Millar	The Bruneval Raid	Cassell : ISBN 0-304-36221-2 : [About one third of the book devoted to the raid the remainder covering early radar and photo reconnaissance]

~ Operation Overlord ~ D-Day

Stephen E. Ambrose	Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II	1994 : ISBN 0-671-67334-3
John Keegan.	Six Armies in Normandy	1982 : ISBN 0 7126 5579 4
Douglas Botting	The Second Front - World War II	World Time Books 1978 : ISBN 0 8094 2498 3
John des S Winser	Short Sea Long War	World Ship Society, Gravesend, Kent : ISBN 1-85310-051-X : [the story of 119 Cross Channel ships commandeered by the R.N. to fly the White Ensign]

~ Dieppe ~

Will Fowler	The Commandos at Dieppe: Rehearsal for D Day	Harper Collins 2000 : ISBN 0 00 711125 8
Bob Bowman	Dieppe	Ottawa : Wartime Information Board, [1942] : 11 p
Jack Lindsay	Into action : the battle of Dieppe : a poem	London : Andrew Dakers, 1942 : 60 p
Willi Antonowitz ... [et al.]	Dieppe: die Bewährung des Küstenwestwalles : ein Gemeinschaftswerk der Kriegsberichter [German]	Berlin : Mittler, 1943 : 97 p
[Hans Kämpfer]	Der Sieg von Dieppe, 19. August 1942 [German]	Paris : Marine-Propaganda-Offizier West, 1943 : 30 p
Quentin Reynolds	Dress rehearsal : the story of Dieppe	New York : Random House, 1943 : xi, 278 p Garden City, NY : Blue Ribbon Books, 1943 : 278 p
Quentin Reynolds	Raid at Dieppe	London : Angus & Robertson, 1943 : x, 199 p New York : Avon, [1958] : 190 p
A.B. Austin	We landed at Dawn	London : Gollancz, 1943 : 127 p Sydney ; London : Angus & Robertson, 1943 : xii, 153 p
A.B. Austin	We landed at dawn : the story of the Dieppe raid	New York : Harcourt, Brace, [1943] : iv, 127 p London : Brown, Watson, [1958] : 157 p : [Digit books ; 165]
Wallace Reyburn	Rehearsal for invasion : an eyewitness story of the Dieppe raid	London : Harrap, 1943 : 126 p
Wallace Reyburn	Glorious chapter : the Canadians at Dieppe	London : Harrap ; Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1943 : ix, 165 p
Wallace Reyburn	Dawn landing [Digit books]	London : Brown, Watson, [1958] : 160 p
J. Hughes-Hallett	The Dieppe raid, 18th/19th August : despatch submitted ... on 30th August 1942	London : London Gazette, 1947 : 5 p : [Supplement to the London Gazette of Tuesday, the 12th of Aug., 1947]
Henri Bernay	Les Canadiens à Dieppe, 19 août 1942	Paris : Rouff, 1948 : 24 p : [French] [Collection Patrie]
Christopher Buckley	Norway : The Commandos : Dieppe	London : H.M.S.O., 1951 : viii, 276 p London : H.M.S.O., 1977 : x, 276 p : ISBN 0-11-772194-8 : [The Second World War, 1939-1945: a popular military history]
R.W. Thompson	Dieppe at dawn : the story of the Dieppe raid	London : Hutchinson, 1956 : 215 p
	At whatever cost : the story of the Dieppe raid	New York : Coward-McCann [1957] : 215 p
	Dieppe at dawn : the story of the Dieppe raid, 19 August 1942	London : White Lion Publishers, 1972 : 215 p : ISBN 0-85617-511-0
Amiral Lepotier	Raids sur mer: St. Nazaire, Dieppe [French]	Paris : France-Empire, [1960] : 299 p
Terence Robertson	Dieppe: The shame and the glory	Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1962 : 432 p Boston : Little, Brown, 1962 : 432 p London : Hutchinson, 1963 : 432 p
Terence Robertson	Dieppe : the shame and the glory [Pan books ; T15]	London : Pan Books, 1965 : 508 p
Eric Maguire	Dieppe, August 19, 1942	London : Cape, 1963 : 205 p London : Corgi, 1974 : 185 : ISBN : 0-552-09575-3
Jacques Mordal	Les Canadiens à Dieppe [French] [Presses Pocket ; 735] [Coup d'œil]	Paris : Presses de la Cité, 1962 : 343 p Paris : Presses Pocket, 1970 : 311 p Paris : Presses de la Cité, 1982 : 253 p : ISBN 2-258-01100-0
Jacques Mordal	Dieppe : the dawn of decision [Panther books ; 1711] [NEL paperbacks ; 50041]	London : Souvenir Press, 1963 : 285 p Toronto : Ryerson Press, 1963 : 285 p London : Panther Books, 1964 : 288 p London : New English Library, 1981 : 288 p : ISBN 0-450-05004-1
Lucien A. Dumais	Un Canadien français à Dieppe [French]	Paris : France-Empire, 1968 : 287 p :
Douglas Stuebing (comp.)	Dieppe 1942	Toronto : Clarke, Irwin, 1967 : [The Canadian series of jackdaws ; C 8]
René Abautret	Dieppe, le sacrifice des Canadiens, 19 août 1942 [French] [Ce jour là]	Paris : Laffont, 1969 : 249 p Montréal : Cercle du livre de France, 1969 : 249 p
Claude-Paul Couture	Opération "Jubilee". Dieppe, 19 août 1942 [French]	Paris : France-Empire, [1969] : 602 p
Raymond Rudler	Le Jubilé des Canadiens [French]	[Paris] : Presses de la Cité, [1972] : 309 p
John Mellor	Forgotten Heroes : the Canadians at Dieppe	Toronto : Methuen, 1975 : 163 p : ISBN 0-458-91180-1
John Mellor	Dieppe : Canada's forgotten heroes	Scarborough, Ont. : Macmillan-NAL, 1979 : viii, 199 p : ISBN 0-7723-0034-8
John Mellor	The Dieppe raid	Sevenoaks [etc.] : Coronet, 1979 : 204 p : ISBN 0-340-22312-X
John Mellor	Dieppe, Canada's forgotten heroes	Alma, Ont. : Maple Leaf Route, 1985 : 159 p : ISBN 0-9692301-0-9 : [the D-Day rehearsal that went so tragically wrong]
James Leasor	Green beach. [A Drum book]	London : Heinemann, 1975 : 249 p : ISBN 0-434-41024-1 New York : Morrow, 1975 : 292 p : ISBN 0-688-00295-1 New York : Dell, 1976 : 256 p :
James Leasor	Green Beach	London : Corgi, 1976 : 288 p : ISBN 0-552-10245-8 London : Corgi, 1982 : 288 p : ISBN 0-552-11922-9 New York : Richardson & Steirman, 1986 : 245 p : ISBN 0-931933-21-8 Toronto : General Paperbacks, 1987 : 283 p : ISBN 0-7736-7130-7 : [the story of one man's courageous mission that changed the course of World War Two.]
William Whitehead	Dieppe 1942 : echoes of disaster	Toronto : Personal Library, 1979 : 187 p : ISBN 0-17-600782-2 New York : St. Martin's Press, 1980 : 187 p : ISBN 0-312-20989-4 Glasgow : Drew, 1982 : 187 p : ISBN 0-86267-006-3
Norman L.R. Franks	The greatest air battle : Dieppe, 19th August, 1942	London : Kimber, 1979 : 256 p : ISBN 0-7183-0396-2 London : Grub Street, 1992 : 256 p : ISBN 0-948817-58-5
Ronald Atkin	Dieppe 1942 : the Jubilee disaster	London : Macmillan, 1980 : xii, 306 p : ISBN 0-333-19187-0
T. Murray Hunter	Canada at Dieppe Le Canada à Dieppe [French]	[Ottawa] : Canadian War Museum, [1982] : ix, 61 p : ISBN 0-919511-06-6 [Ottawa] : Musée Canadien de la guerre, 1982 : ix, 61 p : 0-919511-07-4 : [Musée canadien de la guerre publication d'histoire militaire ; 17]
Raymond Souster	Jubilee of death : the raid on Dieppe	[Ottawa] : Oberon Press, 1984 : 154 p : ISBN 0-88750-533-3 & 0-88750-534-1
P. Paus	Das Inferno von Dieppe : 1942, der gescheiterte britisch-kanadische Landungsversuch	Rastatt : Pabel, 1986 : 109 p : [German] [Die Deutsche Wehrmacht im II. Weltkrieg] : [poetry]
Jimmy Stewart	Dieppe	[Worthing] : Crossroad Postcards, 1987 : 32 p
Joël Tanter	Dieppe : Opération Jubilee : 19 août 1942	Condé-sur-Noireau : Corlet, 1987 : 110 p : ISBN 2-85480-147-4 : [comic] [French]
Brian Loring Villa	Unauthorized action : Mountbatten and the Dieppe raid	Toronto; Oxford; Oxford University Press, 1989 : xiii, 314 p : ISBN 0-19-540679-6 Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1994 : xiii, 314 p : ISBN 0-19-541061-0
Pierre Vennat	Dieppe n'aurait pas dû avoir lieu	Montréal : Méridien, 1991 : 199 p : ISBN 2-89415-056-3 : [French]
W. Denis & Shelagh Whitaker	Dieppe : tragedy to triumph	Toronto : McGraw-Hill Ryerson 1992 : xv, 372 p : ISBN 0-07-551385-4 London : Leo Cooper, 1992 : xv, 372 p : ISBN 0-85052-309-5 : [Capt. Denis Whitaker earned a DSO at Dieppe]
Brereton Greenhous	Dieppe, Dieppe Dieppe, Dieppe [French]	Montreal : Art global, 1992 : 155 p : 2-920718-52-5 Montreal : Art global, 1992 : 155 p : 2-920718-53-3
Ernest Langford	Rendezvous at Dieppe	Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Publishing, 1992 : 170 p : ISBN 1-550-17076-7
-	19 août 1942 à Dieppe : opération Jubilee :	Luneray : Bertout, 1992 : 135 p : ISBN 2-86743-149-2 : des récits authentiques, des souvenirs de témoins oculaires, des photos bouleversantes : le raid de l'espoir [French] [La mémoire normande]
John P. Campbell	Dieppe revisited : a documentary investigation	London : Frank Cass, 1993 : xv, 247 p : ISBN 0-71-463496-4 : [Cass series: studies in intelligence]
Hugh G. Henry & Jean Paul Pallud	Dieppe through the lens of the German war photographer	London : Battle of Britain Prints, 1993 : 63 p : ISBN 0-90-091376-2
Derek R. Leathers	Dieppe : the summary	Worthing : Star Press, [1994] : 20 p
Jack A. Poolton & Jayne Poolton-Turvey	Destined to survive : a Dieppe veteran's story	Toronto : Dundurn Press, 1998 : 144 p : ISBN 1-550-02311-X
Paul Dickinson & Terry Copp	Dieppe : Anglo-Canadian raid - August 1942	London : Leo Cooper, 2001 : 160 p : ISBN 0-85052-792-9
N.M. Christie	The suicide raid : the Canadians at Dieppe, August 19th, 1942	Ottawa : CEF Books, 2001 : vi, 42 p : ISBN 1-89697-936-X : [Access to history ; 5]
Will Fowler	The Commandos at Dieppe : rehearsal for D-Day	London : HarperCollins, 2002 : 256 p : ISBN 0-00-711125-8 : [Operation Cauldron, No.4 Commando attack on the Hess Battery, August 19th 1942]
Béatrice Richard	La mémoire de Dieppe : radioscopie d'un mythe	Montréal : VLB, 2002 : 205 p : ISBN 2-89005-813-1 : [French] [Études québécoises ; 58e]

~ Operation Frankton - The Cockleshell Heroes ~

Quentin Rees	The Cockleshell Canoes - British Military Canoes of World War 2	'Cockleshell Canoes' is the complete narrative of the British Military canoe designed and manufactured during WW2. The work is some 90,000 words in length with many vintage and rare previously unpublished B&W photographs. Published by Amberley Publishing PLC. Book launch c. Nov/Dec 2008. 320 Pages with 134 Photographs. Size 248x172mm. ISBN 9781848680654.
Ewan Southby-Tailyour	Blondie	Leo Cooper in 1998.
William Sparks & Michael Munn	The Last of the Cockleshell Heroes	Leo Cooper in 1992 : ISBN 0 85052 297 8 Repub. in 1995 as a paperback : ISBN 0 85052 465 2.
C.E. Lucas Phillips	Cockleshell Heroes	Heinemann in 1956

~ Operation Musketoon - Glomfjord ~

Stephen Schofield

Musketoon - Commando Raid on Glomfjord 1942

Jonathon Cape 1964.

~ Operation Chariot - St Nazaire ~

Ken Ford	"St Nazaire 1942" The Great Commando Raid	The Osprey campaign series : ISBN 1-84176-231-8 : [an excellent source of information covering planning, execution and aftermath of Op Chariot]
James G Dorrian	Storming St Nazaire - The Dock Busting Raid	Published 1998 : 304 p : ISBN 08052 807 0 : [more recently in paperback by Leo Cooper (an imprint of Pen & Sword Books)]
C.E.Lucas Phillips	The Greatest Raid of All	Pan Books : ISBN 0-330-48070-7
James G Dorrian	Saint-Nazaire. Operation Chariot - 1942	Pen and Sword as part of their 'Battleground' series 2006 : ISBN 1844153347 : [The guide is highly illustrated, with 224 pages, 20 maps and drawings and more than 150 photographs]

~ Operation Archery - Vaagso & Malloy ~

Joseph Devins Jr.	The Vaagso Raid	Robert Hale 1967.
Brian Crabb	In Harms Way	Published 1998 : ISBN 1 900289 02 4 : [The story of HMS Kenya from her build to break up including a chapter on the Vaagso raid]
Lt Col Peter Young	Storm from the Sea	William Kimber 1958

~ Operation Infatuate - Walcheren & the Scheldt ~

Paul M Crucq	Turning the Key - the capture and liberation of Walcheren Island October 30 - November 8, 1944.	320 pages, maps, photos, bibliog. ISBN/EAN 978-90-807854-4-1.
*Sir Brian Horrocks, [with Eversley Belfield and H. Essame].*	Corps Commander	*London; Sidgwick & Jackson, 1977 :* [Chapter 8 of the book gives a very detailed history of the delay in capturing Antwerp harbour which was very urgently needed for the supply of the Allied forces in Europe]
Terry Copp	Cinderella Army:	Toronto [etc.] : University of Toronto press, cop. 2006 XI, 407 p 0-8020-3925-1
Andrew Rawson	Walcheren Operation Infatuate	The Canadians in Northwest Europe, 1944-1945 : Battleground Europe series Belgium-Holland : Barnsley; Lee Cooper 2003 : 192 p : ISBN 0-85052-961-1
R.W. Thompson	The eighty-five days	The story of the battle of the Scheldt London : Hutchinson, 1957 : 235 p Ballantine books (various) & London : Four Square Books, 1960 : 192p
W Denis Whitaker	Tug of War	1984 : ISBN 0-8253-0257-9 : [Canadian view of the Battle of the Scheldt with one chapter on Walcheren landings]
H.A. van Lith	De bevrijding van Walcheren	[Dutch] Middelburg : Den Boer, 1970 : 92 p : ISBN 90-70027-25-9
Albert Baldewyns, André Herman-Lemoine	Les batteries de Walcheren De kanonnen van Walcheren	[French] [Collection "Des temps et des hommes"] Bruxelles ; Paris : Rossel, 1974 [Dutch] Zele : D.A.P. Reinaert ; Gent : Het Volk, 1977 : 208 p : ISBN 200 90-310-0400-6
J.L.Moulton	Battle for Antwerp	The liberation of the city and the opening of the Scheldt : 1944 London : Ian Allan ; New York : Hippocrene Books : 1978 : 208 p : ISBN 0-7110-0769-1
Gerald Rawling	Cinderella operation : the battle for Walcheren, 1944	London Cassell, 1980 : xi, 164 p : ISBN 0-304-30641-X: [Especially dealing with the naval support craft]
Terry Copp, Robert Vogel	Maple leaf route: Scheldt	Alma, Ont. : Maple Leaf Route, 1985 : 143 p :ISBN 0-919907-04-0
J.N. Houterman	Walcheren bevrijd : een fotografisch overzicht van de operaties ter bevrijding van Walcheren in november 1944	[Dutch] Middelburg : J.N. Houterman, 1994 : 96 p : ISBN 90-73921-03-1
André H. Lemoine	Forteresse Escaut : Novembre 1944, le dernier débarquement des bérets verts	[French] [Collection Les Combattants] Paris : Albin Michel, 1994 : 190 p : ISBN 2-226-07541-0
Ansgar Dürnholz	Het laatste bastion	[Dutch] Achtergronden en gevolgen van de slag om Walcheren Vlissingen : Den Boer/De Ruiter, 1997 : 224 p : ISBN 90-74576-18-4
Yves Buffetaut	1944, les combats sur l'Escaut	[French] [D'Arnhem à Walcheren, l'automne perdu ; 2] [Les grandes batailles de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale] [Armes militaria magazine. Hors série ; 32] Paris : Histoire & Collections, 1999 : 83-162 p
Ken Tout.	In the Shadow of Arnhem.	Subtitle - The battle for the Lower Maas, September-November 1944 : Sutton Publishing Ltd., Phoenix Mill, Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucester GL5 2BU England : xiv, 242 p : ISBN 0-7509-2821-2
Andrew Rawson	Battle Ground Europe Guide to Walcheren	Pen and Sword, 47 Church Street, Barnsley : ISBN 0850529611 : [Fully illustrated with maps and photographs. The book charts the planning and execution of Operations Infatuate I and II. The final section deals with visiting the island : 144 pages, 120 illustrations (75 wartime photos, 25 modern and 20 maps)]
Paul M. Crucq	Codename 'NELLY'; British Radar Units on Walcheren and in Flanders. Defence of the Scheldt estuary, December 1944 - May 1945	Publication date Oct 2004 : 80 pages : [Illustrations and photographs, detailed interviews; limited edition, over 100 illustrations. Subjects are: RAF mobile Radar defence at De Haan, Blankenberge [both in Belgium], "Nelly" at Westkapelle and "Paddy" at Oostkapelle {both in Walcheren}]
Raymond Mitchell	They did what was asked of them	Firebird Books, 1996 : ISBN 1 85314 205 0 : [ History of 41 [Royal Marine] Commando - the book covers the period 1942-1946, but has a detailed chapter on 41's role in the invasion of Walcheren ]
David Bercusson.	Battalion of Heroes: the Calgary Highlanders in World War II	The Calgary Highlanders Regimental Funds Foundation, 1994 ISBN : 0-9694616-1-5

~ Lofoten Islands Raids ~

Dr G Miles	The Epic of Lofoten	Hutchinson in 1941
HMSO	Secret German Documents Seized during the Raid on the Lofoten Islands on 4th March 1941	HMSO's Command 6270 Norway No 1 (1941)
Evan John	Lofoten Letter	1941 by Heinemann : [A diary of the raid written by a member of No 4 Commando. His real name was Evan John Simpson, the author and playwright]
Supplement to The London Gazette	Raid on Military and Economic Objectives in the Lofoten Islands	Published 22 June 1948

~ Other Raids ~

Michael Asher	Get Rommel	The Secret British Mission to Kill Hitler's Greatest General : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 2004 : 303 p : ISBN 029784685X
Michael Cumming	The Starkey Sacrifice	The Allied Bombing of Le Portel 1943 : Sutton Publishing, 1996.
Commander Kenneth Edwards	Operation Neptune	Collins in 1946 : [Covers the naval side of the North West Europe campaign including Commando actions such as Walcheren]
Gérard Fournier & André Heintz	If I must die…From "Postmaster" to "Aquatint"	The audacious raids of a British Commandos 1941-1943. ISBN 2915762058/ 9782915762051
-	Opération Aquatint 12-13 Septembre 1942	An English translation of this French book, distributed by Bookprint in the UK, is available from Amazon.

~ BIOGRAPHIES ~

Richard Hough	Mountbatten : hero of our time	Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London : 1980 : xiii, 290 p: ISBN 0297778056
Philip Ziegler	Mountbatten : the official biography	London : Collins, 1985. 786 p. ISBN 0002165430
John Terraine	The life and times of Lord Mountbatten	London Hutchinson, 1968 : x, 197 p : ISBN 0090888103 : [An illustrated biography based on the television history]
Brian Loring Villa	Unauthorized action : Mountbatten and the Dieppe Raid	Toronto ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989 : xiii, 314 p : ISBN 0195406796
Eugene L. Rasor	Earl Mountbatten of Burma, 1900-1979	Historiography and annotated bibliography : Westport, Conn. Greenwood Press, 1998 : xvii, 139 p : ISBN 0313288763
Elizabeth Keyes	Geoffrey Keyes, VC of the Rommel Raid	George Newman, London
C.F. Aspinall-Oglander,	Roger Keyes	Hogarth Press, London 1951 : xv, 478 p. illus. 23 cm. : [Biography of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes of Zeebrugge and Dover, G.C.B., K.C.V.O., C.M.G., D.S.O]
Paul G. Halpern (Edited by)	The Keyes Papers	Published by Allen & Unwin for the Navy Records Society, 1972-1981. 3 vols : ill., maps ; 23 cm : [Selections from the private and official correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Baron Keyes of Zeebrugge. London]
David Lampe	Pyke the Unknown Genius	1959
Philip Ziegler	Personal Diary of Admiral The Lord Louis Mountbatten - Supreme Allied Commander South-East Asia 1943 - 1946	Collins 1988 : ISBN 0-00-217607-6

~ OTHER ~

Paul Lund and Harry Ludlam	War of the Landing Craft	W Foulsham and Co. 1976 ISBN 0-572-00935-6
Victor S Wigmore	Memoirs of a Concrete Consultant	Pub in 1979 by New Horizon, 5, Victoria Drive, Bognor Regis, West Sussex : ISBN 0 86116 127 0 : [Author was a consulting engineer on the Mulberry Harbour project in SE of England. His speciality was in the use of concrete. Chapter VII of his book describes aspects of his work on Mulberry]
Jane Evans, E. Palmer & R. Walter	A Harbour Goes to War - The Story of Mulberry and The Men Who Made it Happen	ISBN 1873547307 : [The Mulberry harbours were a vital link in the supply chain following the Normandy invasion. This is the story of their development in Scotland, and their use, using personal anecdotes and photographs]
Alfred Stanford	Force Mulberry	William Morrow and Co, 1951 : [The Planning & Installation of the artificial harbor off U.S. Normandy Beaches]
Mark Hughes	Conwy Mulberry Harbour	Paperback, ISBN 0-86381-757-2.
G Hartcup	Code Name Mulberry	Published 1977 David & Charles, London & Hippocrene Books Inc NY : [The Planning, Building and Operation of the Normandy Harbors]
Hubert G Male	Being in All Respects Ready for Sea	James Publishing, London, 1992. ISBN1 85756 030 2.
Doug Shears	Damn my two left feet...and how I flew with them.	Jeff Mill & Associates 4/8 Nile St, Timaru, New Zealand. 2001 : [New Zealander Doug Shears was a pilot with 516 RAF Sqd attached to Combined Operations. His book includes a chapter on his experiences with them]
Phil Jones	Airfield Focus - No. 35 Dundonald	GMS Enterprises, 67 Pyhill, Peterborough, PE3 8QQ : 1998 : ISBN 1 870384 66 0.
Adrian Searle	PLUTO Pipe-line under the Ocean	Shanklin Chine, 12 Pomona Road, Shanklin, Isle of Wight, O37 6PF : ISBN 0 9525876 0 2.
Bob Knight, Harry Smith & Barry Barnett	PLUTO - World War 11's Best-Kept Secret.	Published in 1998 by Bexley Council : [Softback about the involvement of The Callender Cable Co. in the PLUTO project]
Michael Cumming	Radar Reflections - The Secret Lives of Air Force Radar Mechanics in WW2	Radar Associates, Calgary, Alberta 2000 : ISBN 1-894255 10 0.
Hughes-Wilson, Col .John	Military Intelligence Blunders	London: Robinson Publishing, 1999 : ISBN 1841190675 : [Includes Dieppe and D-day]
Wilfred Eggleston	Scientists at War	1950.
Guy Hart	The Challenge of War: Scientific and Engineering Contributions in WW2	ISBN 0-7153-4789-6.
Hugh Sebag-Montefiore	ENIGMA the Battle of Code	Paperback 2001.
Bruce Macdermott.	Ships Without Names	The story of the RN's Tank Landing Ships : Arms and Armour Press 1992.
George K Grande, Sheila M Linden & Horace R Macauly	Canadians on Radar 1940 -1945	Published by The Canadian History Project 2000 : ISBN 0-9687596 0 2.
Charles Cruikshank	Deception in WW2	OUP 1981.
Louis Allan	Burma - The Longest War 1941-1945	Cassell & Co, Military Section 2000 : ISBN 0-304-35370-1.
John Keegan	Six Armies in Normandy	1982. ISBN 0-7126-5579-4.
Stephen E Ambrose	Day June 6 1944: The Climatic Battle of WW2	1994 : ISBN 0-67334-3
B Carruthers and S Trew	The Normandy Battles	Cassell & Co Military Section : ISBN 0 35396 5.
John des S Winser.	Short Sea Long War	World Ship Society, Gravesend, Kent : [The story of 119 Cross Channel Ships commandeered by the R.N. to fly the White Ensign]
George W Ball	The Past has another Pattern	1982 : ISBN 0-393-01481-9.
R W Thompson	The Price of Victory	Constable, London 1960.
Lt. Col. Mains	Field Security - Very Ordinary Intelligence	Piction Publishing (Chippenham) Ltd : [An account of his time in the Intelligence Corps where he attained the position of Chief Intelligence Officer of Central Command in India in 1946]
Ken Small,	The Forgotten Dead	Bloomsbury : ISBN 0-7475 Q433 4.
David Lampe	Pyke: the Unknown Genius	1959.
Guy Hartcup	The Challenge of War: Scientific and Engineering Contributions to World War II	1970 : ISBN 0-7153-4789-6.
Wilfred Eggleston	Scientists at War	1950.
Max Perutz	I wish I'd made you angry earlier - Essays on Science and Scientists	ISBN 0879696745 : Includes an essay that discusses the development of Pykrete entitled 'Enemy Alien' :
George R. Lindsey	No Day Long Enough	Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies 1997.
Henry Buckton,	Forewarned is Forearmed	An Official Tribute and History of the ROC. Ashford, Buchan & Enright 1993 : ISBN 1–85253-292-0
Derek Wood.	Attack Warning Red	The ROC and the Defence of Britain 1925 to 1975 : Macdonald and Jane’s 1976 : ISBN 0356 08411 6.

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Commando Country, by Stuart Allan, Senior Curator of Military History at the National War Museum, Edinburgh Castle; a newly published book on Scotland's role in the training of Commandos and Special Operations personnel in WW2.	National Museums Scotland's Bookshop
Commando Veterans' Association - for those who wore the green beret for any time from 1940 to the present day. Associate membership also available.	CVA