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Sheet1 Page 1 Title Author Publisher Date ISBN Cover Pages Specific Subject Geoffrey JEA 1943 Cockleshell Commandos 2002 9780850 Sheet1 Title Author Publisher Date ISBN Cover Pages Specific Subject Geoffrey JEA Blandford 1943 Geoffrey Appleyard, No7 Cdo & SAS Cockleshell Commandos Bill Sparkes DSM 2002 9780850529296 Hard Back 'Franktons' No Picnic Julian Thompson BCA 1985 3 Cdo Brigade, Falklands The Fuel of Fire Douglas Grant Cresset Press 1986 Hard Back 235 41 RM Cdo Commando Despatch Rider Raymond Mitchell Le Cooper 2001 0-85052-797-x 234 41 RM Cdo They did what was Asked of Them Raymond Mitchell Firebrand Books 1974 1-85314-205-0 224 41 RM Cdo 44(RM) Commando Tony MacKenzie Tom Donovan 1996 1-87108-533-0 Hard Back 44 RM Cdo Four Five David Young 45 RM Cdo Story of 45 Cdo RM McCorquadale & Co Presido Press 45 RM Cdo Commando Men Bryan Samain Stevens 1948 45 RM Cdos, WWII From Omaha to the Scheldt John Forfar MC Tuckwell Press 2001 1-86232-149-3 400 47 RM Cdo Commando Strike Kenneth Macksey Leo Cooper 1985 436270250 Amphibious Raids WWII The Raiders Robin Neillands Fontana 1989 Paper Back Army Cdos Army Commandos 1940 - 1945 Mike Chappell Osprey 1996 1-85532-579-9 64 Army Cdos Commando Crusade Maj-Gen. T Churchill William Kimber 1987 Hard Back 272 Army Cdos The Raiders Robin Neillands Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1944 0-297-79426-4 Paper Back 242 Army Cdos The Banzai Hunters Peter Haining Robson Books 1983 1-84486-052-3 Hard Back 192 Burma Falklands Commando Hugh McManners Kimber 1984 Capt Hugh McManners Commando John Durnford-Slater Kimber 1953 222 Cdo Memoirs March Past Lord Lovat Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1978 0-297-77456-5 Hard Back 399 Cdo Memoirs Only the Sun Remembers James Alan Thompson Dakers 1950 275 Cdo Memoirs It Had To Be Tough James Dunning Pentland 1-85821-748-2 Paper Back 2000 Cdo Training Commandos and Rangers of WW2 James D Ladd BCA 1978 Cdos & US Rangers (Trained at Achnacarry) Combined Operations 1940 - 1942 Ministry of Information HMSO 1943 Paper Back 144 Combined Ops Soldier, Sailor Geoffrey Saunders 1947 Combined Ops The Watery Maze Bernard Fergusson Collins 1996 445 Combined Ops A Drop Too Many Maj-Gen. John Frost Combined Ops Combined Operations Hilary St George Saunders Macmillan 1943 Hard Back 155 Combined Ops Combined Operations James D Ladd Dragon Grafton Books 1986 0-583-31004-4 48 Combined Ops The Commandos; 1940 - 1946 Charles Messenger William Kimber 2003 0-7183-0553-1 Hard back 447 Commandos British Commandos in Action Leroy Thompson 1987 0-89747-192-X 49 Commandos Commando - The elite fighting force of the WWII Sally Dugan 2001 Commandos Commando Peter Young Commandos WWII The Commandos (World War II) Timelife Books Commandos Hand of Steel Rupert Butler Hamlyn 1980 0-600-38387-3 261 Commandos The Commandos; 1940 - 1946 Charles Messenger Grafton 1985 Paper Back Commandos Commando-Winning the Green Beret Hugh McManners Commandos Storm from the Sea Lt-Col. Peter Young William Kimber Commandos Commandos & Rangers of World War II James Ladd MacDonald & Jane's 1978 0-356-08432-9 288 Commandos The Commandos of World War II Hodding Carter Random House 168 Commandos The Commandos Derek Oakley Arms & Armour Press 0-85368-844-3 72 Commandos Clash By Night Brig. Mills-Roberts William Kimber 1956 Hard Back 204 Commandos Commando Attack Gordon Holman Hodder & Stoughton 1942 Hard Back 174 Commandos Seven Assignments Brig. Dudley Clarke Jonathan Cape 1948 Hard Back 262 Commandos Raiders from the Sea Admiral Contre-Lepotier William Kimber 1954 Commandos The Commandos, D-Day & After Donald Gilchrist Hale 1991 0-7090-5391-6 Paper Back Commandos Castle Commando Donald Gilchrist Lochaber 1993 0-9522486-0-3 Paper Back Commandos Castle Commando Donald Gilchrist Oliver & Boyd 1960 Hard Back Commandos The Green Beret Hilary St George Saunders Michael Joseph Hard Back 362 Commandos D-Day Commando Ken Ford Sutton Publishing Ltd 2003 0-7509-3023-3 Commandos The Commandos (World War II) Russell Miller Collins 2002 Commandos Commando Keiffer: Free French No10 Cdo & No4 Cdo Eric Le Penven 2840482029 Free French, No10 (IA), No4 Cdo Geoffrey Keyes VC Elizabeth Keyes Newnes 1956 Geoffrey Keyes Musketoon Stephen Schofield Garden City 1964 Glomfjord power station Raid Special Commando Rex Woods William Kimber 1985 0-7183-0570-1 Hard Back 192 Lt-Col. Robert Wilson Commando Force 133 Bill Strutton Bantam War Books 1981 Mad' Jack Churchill & Force 133 Commando Diary Tag Barnes MM Spellmount 1991 No1 Cdo, Torch to Hill 170 Ten Commando 1942 - 1945 Ian Dear St Martin's 0-312-03438-5 No10 (IA) Cdo Commandos in Exile Nick Van der Bijl 9781844157907 Hard Back No10 (IA) Cdo Ten Commando 1942 - 1945 Ian Dear Leo Cooper 1989 0-85052-121-1 207 No10 (IA) Cdo No 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando Nick Van der Bijl Osprey: Elite Series No10 (IA) Cdo Fighting with the Commandos N Barber & S Scott 9781844157747 Hard Back 192 No3 Cdo Swiftly They Struck Murdoch C McDougall 1987 No4 Cdo Dieppe Glory John Stoneham Badger Books 1956 No4 Cdo The Commandos at Dieppe Will Fowler 1966 No4 Cdo No 4 Commando: Normandy 1944 Stephane Simonnet No4 Cdo Normandy 1944 - No 4 Commando Eric Le Penven No4 Cdo The Fighting Fourth James Dunning Sutton Publishing Ltd 1950 0-7509-3095-0 No4 Cdo Don't Cry for Me Donald Gilchrist Hale 1982 0-7091-9148-0 192 No4 Cdo Swiftly they Struck Murdoch C McDougall Odhams Press 1954 Hard Back 208 No4 Cdo To War With Waugh John St John Leo Cooper 1973 0-85052-163-7 55 No8 Cdo To War With Waugh John St John Whittingdon No8 Cdo Godwins Saga Kenneth Macksey Brasseys 1987 Norway Raid, No12 Cdo & RN Cdo The Middle East Commandos Charles Messenger William Kimber 1990 0-7183-0645-7 Hard Back 176 Nos 50, 51, 52 Cdos The Greatest Raid of All C E Lucas Phillips Heinemann Hard Back 288 Op Chariot Massacre at Tobruk Peter C Smith William Kimber 1987 Hard Back 214 Op. Agreement Commando Extraordinary Charles Foley Longmans, Green & Co 1954 Otto Skorzeny Page 1 Sheet1 By Sea and Land Robin Neillands Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1987 0-297-79064-1 268 RM Cdos Commandos John Parker RM Cdos Green Beret, Red Star Anthony Crockett 1954 RM Cdos, Malaya Amphibious Assault Tristan Lovering Seafarer Books 2007 Royal Marines The Royal Marines 1939-93 N van der Bijl & P Hannon Osprey 1-85532-388-5 64 Royal Marines The Royal Marines Ministry of Information HMSO 1994 80 Royal Marines The Marines were there Robert Bruce Lockhart Putnam 1988 229 Royal Marines The Making of a Royal Marine Commando Nigel Foster 1950 Royal Marines Short History of the Marines G W Grover Gale & Polden 1948 68 Royal Marines By Land, By Sea James D Ladd Royal Marines, 1919 – 1997 Beachhead Assault David Lee Greenhill Books 2004 Royal Navy Cdo The Beachhead Commandos Cecil Hampshire William Kimber Royal Navy Cdo Beachead Commandos Cecil Hampshire 1983 Royal Navy Cdo The General salutes a Soldier J V Byrne Hale 1958 Hard Back 186 SAS, Cdos Raiders from the Sea John Lodwick Leventhal 1990 SBS First into Action Duncan Falconer L&B SBS The Greatest Raid of All C E Lucas Phillips 1949 St Nazaire Raid St Nazaire Commando Stuart Chant-Sempill 1958 St Nazaire Raid Storming St Nazaire James Dorrian St Thomas St Nazaire Raid St Nazaire 1942: The Great Commando Raid Ken Ford Osprey: Battle Orders St Nazaire Raid The Attack on St Nazaire Cdr R E D Ryder VC RN 2006 St Nazaire Raid The Vaagso Raid Joseph Hdevins Jr 1961 The Vaagso Raid From D-Day to V.E Day - the British Soldier Jean Bouchery Uniforms, Insignia & Equipment Raiders of Arakan C E Lucas Phillips Heinemann 1971 0-4344-3657-7 Hard Back 198 V Force, Cdos Hand of Steel Rupert Butler Severn House 1981 WWII From the Desert to the Baltic Maj-Gen. G Roberts William Kimber 1987 0-7183-0639-2 Hard Back 256 WWII Army Norway The Commandos Dieppe Christopher Buckley 1951 Inside the Commandos James D Ladd Guild Publishing Tobruk Commando Gordon Landsborough Combined Ops Percy Westerman Get Tough; How to Win in Hand to Hand Fighting Major WE Fairbairn Paladin Press 1979 True Stories of the Commandos Percy Blackie 1943 With the Commandos Percy Westerman The Last of the Cockleshell Heroes Bill Sparks DSM The Bruneval Raid George Miller Robert Hale The Commandos Lord Lovat 1987 Striking Back; A Jewish Commandos Story Peter Masters 1954 Battle for Antwerp J L Moulton The Commandos WW2 to the present Derek Oakley 1994 Dieppe August 19 Eric MacGuire Corgi Books British Commandos 1940-46 Battle Orders Tim Moreman Praeger 2004 Commando Gallantry Awards of WWII George A Brown 1991 Assault from the Sea James D Ladd Cockleshell Heroes C E Lucas Phillips William Heinemann 1956 June 6th 1944 Voices of D-Day Gerald Astor St Martins Press Crete; The Battle and Resistance Antony Beevor Penguin 1991 Invasion Bill Millin Swift Print Commandos: Churchill's Hand of Steel Simon Dunstan Spearhead 2003 Page 2.
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