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ASPINALL-OGLANDER, Cecil. Roger Keyes: Being the Biography of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes of Zeebrugge and Dover, GCB, KCVO, CMG, DSO. xv, 478p., illus., index. London: Hogarth, 1951.Keyes returned to the Navy in 1940 and after liaison work in Belgium created the new Combined Operations Directorate. He was relieved of this command in 1941 as a result of political disagreements and resumed his seat in Parliament. He later received a peerage before his death in 1945. A rather uncritical account of a major figure.
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Home Waters 1940-1944; Combined Operations: The Early Years;
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BADEN-POWELL, Dorothy. Operation Jupiter: SOE's Secret War in Norway. 208p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Hale, 1982. ISBN: 070919367X.
A member of the Scandinavian section of SOE recounts the many operations mounted in Norway, often with a naval component.
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Home Waters 1940-1944; Combined Operations: The Early Years;
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BARTLETT, Merrill L. Assault from the Sea: Essays on the History of Amphibious Warfare. xx, 453p., bibliog., illus., index. Annapolis: NIP, 1983. ISBN: 0870210882.A series of 51 essays reprinted from various journals and ranging from Marathon to the Falklands. It has relevant material on Sealion, the German invasion of Norway, Dieppe, and D-Day.
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Home Waters 1940-1944; Combined Operations: The Early Years;
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BUCKLEY, Christopher. Norway: The Commandos: Dieppe (The Second World War, 1939-1945. A Popular Military History by Various Authors in Eight Volumes). viii, 276p., illus., index. London: HMSO, 1951.Covers all the amphibious operations in Northern Europe before the Normandy Invasion.
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Home Waters 1940-1944; Combined Operations: The Early Years;
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CHERRY, Niall. Striking Back: Britain's Airborne and Commando Raids 1940-1942. 422p., bibliog., illus., index. Solihull: Helion, 2009. ISBN: 1906033250.Describes the setting up of Special Forces then their training and gives accounts of some of the less well known operations. Almost half of the book consists of appendices, mostly reprinting contemporary operational reports and plans.
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Home Waters 1940-1944; Combined Operations: The Early Years;
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CLIFFORD, Kenneth J. Amphibious Warfare Development in Britain and America from 1920-1940. x, 302p., bibliog., index. Edgewood: Laurens, 1983. ISBN: 0533053706.A Reserve Marine Corps Colonel makes a comparative study of policy and decision making in the inter-war years.
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Home Waters 1940-1944; Combined Operations: The Early Years;
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COOK, F. N. Operation Biting: The Naval Story of the Bruneval Raid, February 1942 (Monograph 157). 15p., illus. Sydney: Naval Historical Society of Australia, 1997.The naval component of the Commando raid to gather intelligence on German radar capability.
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Home Waters 1940-1944; Combined Operations: The Early Years;
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CRESWELL, John. Generals and Admirals: The Story of Amphibious Command. viii, 192p., illus., index. London: Longmans Green, 1952.A re-examination of a number of amphibious operations drawn from the last 400 years, concerned with questions of command and the relationships of the various forces involved. The major assaults in Western Europe, from Narvik to Normandy, are considered.
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Home Waters 1940-1944; Combined Operations: The Early Years;
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DEVINS, Joseph H. The Vaagso Raid: The Commando Attack that Changed the Course of World War II. 222p., illus., index. London: Hale; Philadelphia: Chilton, 1967.A description of the Christmas 1941 raid. Apart from the lessons learned about combined operations, the book claims that this was the start of Hitler’s Norwegian fixation, which affected German strategy.
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Home Waters 1940-1944; Combined Operations: The Early Years;
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FERGUSSON, Bernard. The Watery Maze: The Story of Combined Operations. 445p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Collins; New York: Holt Rinehart, 1961.A general but very interesting account and a standard work.
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Home Waters 1940-1944; Combined Operations: The Early Years;
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FOXALL, Raymond. The Amateur Commandos. 159p., illus. London: Hale, 1980. ISBN: 0860095916.How two members of the Army Dental Corps determined to see action and made a private raid on France in 1942. A full account of a madcap scheme. Reprinted in paperback in 1982 as Against All Odds.
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Home Waters 1940-1944; Combined Operations: The Early Years;
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GREAT BRITAIN. Ministry of Information. Combined Operations 1940-1942. 144p., illus. London: HMSO; New York: Macmillan, 1943.An accurate and truthful account within the limits of wartime security. It describes all of the best-known operations and gives some account of the formation and training of the Commandos.
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Home Waters 1940-1944; Combined Operations: The Early Years;
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GUILLOU, Michel. Operation "Fahrenheit": The Story of a Small-Scale Commando Raid from Dartmouth to the Pointe de Plouezec. (Dartmouth History Research Group, Paper 20). viii, 32p., illus. Dartmouth: Dartmouth History Research Group, 1996. ISBN: 1899011102.Describes a small 1942 raid on a signal station in Brittany.
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Home Waters 1940-1944; Combined Operations: The Early Years;
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HASTINGS, Nicholas. Round the Next Corner. 190p., frontis. London: Davies, 1949.
An autobiography for the years 1939-48. The period is viewed in a series of snapshots, through which the author examines some of the memorable incidents in his career. Called up by the Navy in 1939, he quickly gravitated to Combined Operations where he witnessed several of their operations at first-hand.
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Home Waters 1940-1944; Combined Operations: The Early Years;
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KEMP, Peter. The Thorns of Memory: Memoirs. [vi], 376p., index. London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1990. ISBN: 1856190110.Tales of an adventurer. After fighting for the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War, he joined British irregular forces for WWII and served in the UK, Albania, Poland, and the Far East. There is a full account of some of the early small-scale raids on the French Coast.
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Home Waters 1940-1944; Combined Operations: The Early Years;
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KEYES, Roger. Amphibious Warfare and Combined Operations (Lees Knowles Lectures 1943). 101p. Cambridge: CUP, 1943.A review of several combined operations, with the last quarter of the book devoted to WWII. Admiral Keyes was the first Director of the Combined Operations Directorate and responsible for the early wartime raids which are described. A second edition was published in the same year with maps and an additional note on operations in Sicily.
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Home Waters 1940-1944; Combined Operations: The Early Years;
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KEYES, Roger. The Keyes Papers: Selections from the Private and Official Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Baron Keyes of Zeebrugge, Volume III 1939-1945, edited by Paul G. Halpern (Publications of the Navy Record Society, vol. 122). xiv, 398, [vi]p., illus., index. London: Allen & Unwin, 1981. ISBN: 0049421727.Basic source material and fullest on his period as Director
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Home Waters 1940-1944; Combined Operations: The Early Years;
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MACKSEY, Kenneth. Commando Strike: The Story of Amphibious Raiding in World War II. xxvi, 226p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Cooper, 1985; New York: Stein & Day, 1986. ISBN: 0436270250.A good general account, which gives a view of American as well as British raiding operations. US title: Commando Hit and Run Combat in World War II.
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Home Waters 1940-1944; Combined Operations: The Early Years;
Abbreviations | |
AHR | American Historical Review |
Alb | Albion |
alt | alternate |
Am Nep | American Neptune |
AQ & DJ | Army Quarterly and Defence Journal |
ASLIB | Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux |
BIHR | Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research |
Can His Rev | Canadian Historical Review |
Can J His | Canadian Journal of History |
comp | Compiled by |
DAI | Dissertation Abstracts International |
EcHR | Economic History Review |
ed | editor or edited by |
EnHR | English Historical Review |
HisAHR | Hispanic American Historical Review |
HJ | Historical Journal (Cambridge Historical Journal) |
His Res | Historical Research |
His Tod | History Today |
Intell & Nat Sec | Intelligence and National Security |
IJ Mar His | International Journal of Maritime History |
IJ Nau Arch | International Journal of Nautical Archaeology |
IHR | International History Review |
intro | introduction |
J Am His | Journal of American History |
J Asian His | Journal of Asian History |
JBS | Journal of British Studies |
J Cont His | Journal of Contemporary History |
J Econ His | Journal of Economic History |
JI & CH | Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History |
J Mar Res | Journal for Maritime Research |
J Mil His | Journal of Military History |
J Mod His | Journal of Modern History |
JRUSI | Journal of the Royal United Service Institution or Institute |
J Soc His | Journal of Social History |
JSAHR | Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research |
J Stra Stu | Journal of Strategic Studies |
J Trans His | Journal of Transport History |
J Wor His | Journal of World History |
MM | Mariner's Mirror |
Mil Aff | Military Affairs |
NHS | Naval History Symposium (USNA) |
NMM | National Maritime Museum |
Nav Rev | Naval Review |
NWCR | Naval War College Review (US) |
Nel Dis | Nelson Dispatch |
NIP | Naval Institute Press |
Nor Mar | Northern Mariner |
Pac His Rev | Pacific Historical Review |
P & P | Past and Present |
Traf Chron | Trafalgar Chronicle |
trans | translated by |
UP | University Press |
USNIP | United States Naval Institute Press |
Vic Stu | Victorian Studies |
War & Soc | War and Society |
War in His | War in History |
W&MQ | William and Mary Quarterly |
WSS | World Ship Society |
RFA | Royal Fleet Auxiliary |
NIP | Naval Institute Press |
RAN | Royal Australian Navy |