Author: Phillips, C. E. Lucas,
Title: THE GREATEST RAID OF ALL.
Description: Companion Book Club, London, 1959, club edn., 272pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 22 maps and diagrams in text, blue cloth with maroon title panel at spine lettered in gilt, top edge col'd, this edition does not include the map of the Loire Estuary at endpapers mentioned in the map list, account of Operation Chariot, the 1942 Commando raid on the Normandie Dock at St. Nazaire by HMS Cambeltown and a force of MTB, MGBs and MLs, an operation after which five VC's were awarded and which exceeded the highest expectations of the planners, lightly rubbed at extrems., no dustwrapper, very good plus,

Keywords: war ww2 navy cambeltown mtb mgb ml rncf vc operation chariot nazaire normandie dock tirpitz marine commando


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