Beachhead Assault: The Story of the Royal Naval Commandos in World War II

click here for more details, find new or used items	David Lee New from £9.06 Used from £4.50 Pages: 272 (Hardcover) ISBN: 1853676195 Pub: Greenhill Books Pub date: 2004-10-05 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 174370

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FANTASTIC (0/0 people found this helpful)

What an excellent read. This often untold story of the RN Commandos leaves little out. I read it in a few hours its unputdownable. First hand accounts sit aside historical detail in each paragraph. A must for all.

Personal accounts - up close! (2/2 people found this helpful)

Meet some of the Naval Commandos who were there! If you have read "Up Close and Personal" (also by David Lee) - if not you ought to - you would recognize and appreciate the writing style. The book is almost literally based upon the personal accounts of the commandos themselves. Their accounts are cleverly woven into the hectic history of a part of the armed forces that I hardly knew existed. Okay, I remember the burly, bearded beach master with a shillelagh and a dog on a leash from The Longest Day but that's about it!
You may well argue though, that it is the oddest things these veterans remember about their trials and hardships on and near the invasion beaches around the world! Anyway these often peculiar memories ad honesty and personality to the ordinary sailors of that time - sailors who were not so ordinary after all; that is Royal Naval Commandos! Surely left in the shadows of their Marine and Army brothers in arms, these sailors played a vital but subtle part in almost every allied beachhead assault through WW2. I admit that the Normandy landings are my personal favourites of which I can't get enough; D-Day is the most thoroughly described operation in the book though. Visiting the landing beaches this summer, I found only one mention of the Naval Commandos! In spite of being a tiny coq in the gigantic machinery of the allied invasion forces they have been given too little credit for their efforts, sacrifice and importance, but in "Beachhead Assault" David Lee tries his best to set the record straight!
David Lee has established himself as a serious military historian with an expressed admiration for and attention to the British fighting men of WW2 that we owe so much ...

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