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|
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.] |
|
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 Ł12.99.
01397 702169. |
|
Lt Col Peter Young |
Storm from the Sea |
William Kimber 1958 |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
Ian Dear |
Ten Commando,
1942-1945 |
London : Leo Cooper,
1987 : 207 p : ISBN 0-85052-121-1 |
| 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 Méyčre,
[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)] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
| 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] |
|
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] |
| [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 |
|
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 Ł8.99. |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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 ŕ Dieppe, 19
aoűt 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 ŕ
Dieppe [French] [Presses Pocket ; 735] [Coup d'śil] |
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 ŕ 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 aoűt 1942 [French] [Ce jour lŕ] |
Paris : Laffont,
1969 : 249
p Montréal :
Cercle du livre de France, 1969 : 249 p |
| Claude-Paul
Couture |
Opération "Jubilee". Dieppe,
19 aoűt 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 ŕ 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 aoűt 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 dű 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 aoűt 1942 ŕ 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] |
|
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 |
|
Stephen Schofield |
Musketoon - Commando Raid on
Glomfjord 1942 |
Jonathon Cape 1964. |
|
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] |
| 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 |
|
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 ŕ 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 |
|
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 |
|
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. |
| 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 |
|
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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