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There are over 200 books listed below most which were largely 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 h