Combined Operations : The Official Story of the Commandos ; with a foreword by Vice-Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten. [Contents: To Be Known as Commandos -- Training for Attack -- TheSteel Hand from the Sea -- Destruction in Their Wake -- The Exploits of Layforce -- the Raid on Rommel -- The Significant Adventure of Vaagso -- Batde Over the Fjords -- The Commandos Got Cracking -- The Storming of Diego Suarez -- Dieppe -- The Battery Did Not Fire Again -- The Canadians Go In -- The Battle of the SeaWall -- The Triumph in the Air -- This Majestic Enterprise -- An Experiment in RadioDislocation -- St Nazaire -- The Glorious Rendezvous of H M S Campbeltown -- To the Day of Assault]

[Mountbatten, Louis ; Hilary Aidan St. George Saunders, Great Britain. Ministry of Information, Great Britain. Combined Operations Command]

Published by New York ; The Macmillan Company, 1943., 1943

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xiii p., 1 leafl, 155 p. illus. (maps) plates (1 double) 21 cm. ; LCCN: 43-51183 ; LC: D756; Dewey: 940.542 ; OCLC: 964330 ; numerous photographs of troops in action ; maps ; "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." ; Contents: To Be Known as Commandos -- Training for Attack -- TheSteel Hand from the Sea -- Destruction in Their Wake -- The Exploits of Layforce -- the Raid on Rommel -- The Significant Adventure of Vaagso -- Batde Over the Fjords -- The Commandos Got Cracking -- The Storming of Diego Suarez -- Dieppe -- The Battery Did Not Fire Again -- The Canadians Go In -- The Battle of the SeaWall -- The Triumph in the Air -- This Majestic Enterprise -- An Experiment in RadioDislocation -- St Nazaire -- The Glorious Rendezvous of H M S Campbeltown -- To the Day of Assault ; wartime paper exhibits foxing throughout ; name on endpaper ; minute wear to spine ; VG. Seller Inventory # 850

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Title: Combined Operations : The Official Story of ...

Publisher: New York ; The Macmillan Company, 1943.

Publication Date: 1943

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Book Type: Book