Combined Operations the official story of the Commandos
Forward by Louis Mountbatten
- New York The Macmillan Company 1943
- 155 p
Written by Hilary St. George Saunders.
To be known as commandos. -- Training for attack. -- The steel hand from the sea. -- Destruction in their wake. -- The exploits of "Layforce" -- A stroke at the brain: the raid on Rommel. -- The significant adventure of Vaagso. -- Battle over the fjords. -- An experiment in radio-dislocation. -- Assault from the sea: St. Nazaire. -- The glorious rendezvous of H.M.S. "Campbeltown" -- "The commandos got cracking" -- The storming of Diego Suarez. -- Reconnaissance in force: Dieppe. -- The battery did not fire again. -- The Canadians go in. -- The battle of the sea-wall. -- The triumph in the air. -- "This majestic enterprise" -- To the day of assault.
This is an astonishing, absolutely absorbing account of the accomplishments of those picked men from the Royal Navy, the British Army, and Roayl Air Force, who work with U.S. Rangers and others of the United Nations in the Commandos.