47 Royal Marine Commando

Author : Marc de Bolster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781552971
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 47 Royal Marine Commando written by Marc de Bolster and published by . This book was released on 2014-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 47 Royal Marine Commando: An Inside Story 1943-1946 tells the story of 47 Royal Marine Commando during the Second World War based on personal accounts written by veterans who served in this formidable unit. It is a story of young men who were to play a key role in freeing Europe from Nazi tyranny. From the D-Day landings in Normandy to fierce battles in Holland, some were taken prisoner by the enemy and sent to camps until freed at the end of the war in 1945. Included are eyewitness accounts of the Normandy landings, involvement of the RAF, Royal Navy and American forces, 10 Inter Allied Commando and the effect on local populations who got word of the actions in which this Commando took a major part. Formed from 10th Battalion Royal Marines and reinforced by volunteers from several parts of the British armed forces, they distinguished themselves by sheer determination and professionalism. Over 900 men served in or were attached to this Commando, keeping their overall strength up to 420. Many gave their lives never to return home so others might live to tell their story.

Author : John O. Forfar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780957524705
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Omaha to the Scheldt written by John O. Forfar and published by . This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John O. Forfar
Publisher : John Donald
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Omaha to the Scheldt written by John O. Forfar and published by John Donald. This book was released on 2001 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As medical officer in 47 Royal Marine Commando, the author is ideally placed to describe the reality of frontline battle with its intense fears and physical dangers, the stresses it imposes on body and mind, its killing and wounding, its triumphs and its tribulations and its aftermath.

Author : Ken Ford
Publisher : Sutton Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780750940047
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book D-Day Commando written by Ken Ford and published by Sutton Pub Limited. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 48 Royal Marine Commando began its life in March 1944 and was disbanded in the UK less than two years later in January 1946. In its short but active life it always seemed to be in the thick of the fighting. In fact, a history of 48 RM Commando is a history of the last year of the war in Europe. It participated in the D-Day invasion and landed on Juno Beach on June 6th, 1944, fought as infantry in the bloody battles for Normandy, helped clear the Channel ports, undertook a second amphibious landing during the Walcheren campaign, raided across the Maas in Holland and then took part in the army of occupation in Germany. During the whole of this period it was in almost continuous contact with the enemy. It is surprising, then, that the story of 48 RM Commando has not been made available to a wider audience. Apart from a small booklet written by one of its veterans and published in 1946, it has never been the subject of a complete history of its own. Based on eyewitness accounts, official unit war diaries and published and unpublished sources and supported by a selection of maps, line drawings and archive photographs, this is a gripping and authoritative history of an elite formation.

Author : Kenneth McAlpine
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752462571
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Died With Our Boots Clean written by Kenneth McAlpine and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2010-12-26 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of seventeen, Kenneth McAlpine ran away from the Repton school to join Churchill's new elite special force, the Royal Marine Commandos. As the youngest member of the youngest commando force, after three months he found himself fighting on the beaches of Normandy. In We Died With Our Boots Clean, McAlpine tells his own unique story of World War II and his highly eventful military career. From an unusual encounter with Montgomery and Patton, a concerted attempt to kill a sergeant major and his best friend's arrest for swearing at the Queen of Holland, McAlpine paints a fascinating picture of commando life and the harsh training that prepared soldiers for frontline combat in an elite unit. Full of absorbing anecdotes such as his time in a military prison and a rescue operation at a concentration camp, this book is an essential part of a World War II enthusiast's library.

Author : Robin Neillands
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1844150437
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book By Land and By Sea written by Robin Neillands and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a fighting force. In the words of the marines themselves, Robin Neillands, formerly of 45 Commando RM, describes what it is really like to wear the legendary green beret, in peace and in war. This vivid account charts the story of the Royal Marine Commandos from their bloody baptism on the beaches of Dieppe to the final yomp into Stanley at the end of the Falklands War in 1982.

Author : Robin Neillands
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473812933
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book By Sea and Land written by Robin Neillands and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a fighting force. In the words of the marines themselves, Robin Neillands, formerly of 45 Commando RM, describes what it is really like to wear the legendary green beret, in peace and in war. This vivid account charts the story of the Royal Marine Commandos from their bloody baptism on the beaches of Dieppe to the final yomp into Stanley at the end of the Falklands War in 1982.

Author : Steve Bush
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781904459316
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Warships and Auxiliaries written by Steve Bush and published by . This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nigel Foster
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of a Royal Marine Commando written by Nigel Foster and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Reynolds
Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commando written by David Reynolds and published by History Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the development of the Commandos from the courage and tragedy of Dieppe in 1942 to the biggest amphibious landings in history at Normandy on 6 June 1944, as well as the post-war conflicts in Palestine, Suez, Malaya, Cyprus, Borneo, the Falklands, Northern Iraq and Ulster. A final chapter brings the account fully up-to-date, as it discusses the role of the Commandos in Afghanistan following the terrible events of September 11th. David Reynolds documents the development in the 21st century of Britain's Royal Marine Commandos as a key element of the UK's rapid deployment force. Equipped with new assault ships and a purpose-built helicopter carrier, the green berets are on permanent readiness for operations anywhere in the world. They are, in essence, Britain's "masters of flexible response."