BY SEA AND LANDThe Story of the Royal Marine Commandos

An action-packed history of one of Britain’s proudest elite special forces - The green berets of the Royal Marine Commandos have seen continuous campaigning from their bloody birth in the Dieppe raid of 1942 to the two Gulf Wars via Malaya, Suez, Cyprus, Aden, Borneo, the Falklands and Northern Ireland.

Originally formed at Winston Churchill’s urging, to give the British Army a small mobile strike force to assault German-occupied Europe in surprise hit and run raids, the Royal Marine Commandos had a particularly bloody baptism of fire in the disastrous Dieppe Raid of 1942 - a dress rehearsal for D-Day that went horribly wrong. Popular and prolific military historian the late Robin Neillands - himself a fprmer Royal Marine Commando - here tells the proud story of the legendary green berets in his customary lively and fast -moving prose. The book covers the half century of RM history from Dieppe’s bloody beaches to the famous ‘yomp’ into Port Stanley at the triumphant conclusion to the Falklands War in 1982 and the two Gulf Wars. The decades between saw the RM in the heat of the action in Palestine, Malaya, Suez, Aden, Cyprus, Borneo and Northern Ireland.

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Product Code:	23595
Author:	Robin Neillands. Foreword by Major-General Julian Thompson CB, OBE
Format:	432pp, b/w photographs, sb. Published Price £9.99
Shipping Time:	This item is usually dispatched Next Day
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