Army
Commandos 1940-1945
Mike Chappell
Paperback / Published 1996
Osprey Elite Series No 64
Born of the Desert : With the SAS in North Africa (Greenhill Military
Paperback)
by Malcolm James
Listed under Western Desert WWII
British
Commandos in Action (Combat Troops in Action Series)
by Leroy Thompson
(Paperback - January 1988)
Special Order
Commando
: Memoirs of a Fighting Commando in World War Two
by John Durnford-Slater
3 Commando sprang into being in 1940 in order to harry Axis forces
in pinprick raids that were impossible for regular army units, and took
part in the raid on Dieppe and operations in Sicily and Italy, France,
and, ultimately, Germany itself. The destruction wrought by the commandos
was such that Hitler ordered all personnel captured in such raids executed.
Amazon.com
Hardcover - 222 pages (August 1991)
United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 1557501254
Commando!
by A. B. Feuer
Drawing mostly from their own accounts, tells the story of the secret
guerilla fighters, mostly Australian but including some English and Scots,
who harried the Japanese among islands in the South Pacific from 1940 to
1945 under the auspices of the British government and with the support
of US warships. Describes actions in Borneo, Woody Island, Tourane Bay,
Balikpapan, Sarawak, and elsewhere. Maps are abundantly provided, and contemporary
photographs give faces to the accounts.
Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Hardcover (May 1996)
Praeger Pub Text; ISBN: 0275954080
He
Who Dares : Recollections of Service in the SAS, SBS and MI5
(Special Warfare Series)
by David Sutherland
Hardcover - 224 pages (August 1999)
United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 155750346X
SAS:
Phantoms of War: A History of the Australian Special Air Service
by David Horner
from Allen & Unwin
In Rommel's Backyard : A Memoir of the Long Range Desert Group
by Alastair Timpson, Andrew Gibson-Watt
Listed under Western Desert
Skis
Against the Atom
The Exciting, First Hand Account of Heroism and Daring Sabotage During
the Nazi Occupation of Norway
by Knut Haukelid
A classic of commando sabotage, highly recommended.
Paperback reprint edition (August 1989)
North American Heritage Pr; ISBN: 0942323076
Storm
from the Sea
by Peter Young
British Commando operations in WWII
(Hardcover - September 1989)
Striking
Back : A Jewish Commando's War Against the Nazis
by Peter Masters
Masters, an Austrian-born Jew originally named Peter Arany, has an
unusual war story to tell, one that has not been told before. Masters was
one of 87 Jewish refugees from Hitler who volunteered for military service
in Troop 3, No. 10 Commando, an elite unit of the British army. Troop 3
was unusual in that almost all of its members were Austrian and German
Jews, men who spoke German fluently and who would be trained in the ways
and means of the German army (to the extent that, Masters notes wryly,
they probably knew more about German weaponry and organization than most
German soldiers).
Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
Hardcover - 320 pages (December 1997)
Presidio Pr; ISBN: 0891416293
SAS
Encyclopedia of Survival
by Barry Davies
Hardcover (November 1999)
Lewis Intl Inc; ISBN: 0966677153
SAS : With the Maquis : In Action With the French Resistance June-September
1944
by Ian Wellsted
Listed under French Resistance
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We
Die Alone
by David Howarth
Arctic Circle, Norway 1943. Commando incursion goes horribly awry.
Eleven of the 12 man team killed or captured, tortured and executed with
the usual Gestapo gusto for bestiality. Sole survivor escapes barefooted
and injured over the frozen wastes, swims icy seas, skis in one side of
a Nazi infested village and out the other as they pour fire upon him, buried
by an avalanche, snow-blind stumbles upon an isolated log cabin whose occupants
risk family, friends and eventually most of the local resistance network
to save him, subsequently buried alive for a month, performs a series
of amputations upon himself with a blunt pen-knife to forestall the progress
of gangrene, finally makes the Swedish border on a sledge amidst a herd
of galloping reindeer across a melting iceflow again under German fire.
Naturally, the hero makes an amazing recovery and returns to active service
some months later to further harrass the Hun.
Pretty good plot, what? As a work of fiction, the reviewer would gently
ask the reader to suspend disbelief and the book would be dismissed by
most serious readers as another over-the-top military adventure tale. However,
it is not fiction. Dropbears.com
Introduction by Stephen E. Ambrose
Paperback - 231 pages 1st Lyons edition (November 1999)
The Lyons Press; ISBN: 1558219730
The
Shetland Bus : A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival, and Adventure
by David Howarth
Paperback - 220 pages (April 2001)
The Lyons Press; ISBN: 1585742880
SAS: Great Britain's Elite Special Air Service
Leroy Thompson
Paperback - 128 pages (November 1994)
Motorbooks International; ISBN: 0879389400
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