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THE COASTAL FORCES

HERITAGE TRUST

Books About Coastal Forces

The books listed below are currently out of print but can be obtained through a public library.  The Coastal Forces Veterans Association Library has some 200 books for loan and also keeps a stock of second hand coastal forces related books for sale. The librarian can be reached at the address at the bottom of this page.


 

Coastal Forces at War

David Jefferson; Patrick Stephens Ltd: 1996

ISBN 1852604999


Inshore Heroes

W Granville & R A Kelly

W H Allen, London, 1961


Royal Naval Coastal Forces 1939-45

A J D North, Almark Publishing 1972


Storming St Nazaire

J G Dorrian, Leo Cooper, London, 1998, ISBN 0850524199


The Fairmile D Motor Torpedo Boat

John Lambert , Conway Maritime Press, London 1985, ISBN 0851773214


British Coastal Forces of WW2

Paul J Kemp, ISO Publications, London 1997,  ISBN 0946784523


Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946

Conway Maritime Press, London 1980, ISBN 0 85177 146 7


Conways's  All the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1982

Conway Maritime Press Ltd London 1980, ISBN 0 85177 225 0


British Waships 1914-1919

F J Dittmar & J J Colledge, Ian Allen Ltd, London 1972, ISBN 0 7110 0380 7


British and Empire Warships of the Second World War

H T Lenton, Greenhill Books , London 1998, ISBN 1 85367 277 7


The Battle of the Narrow Seas

Peter Scott, Country Life, 1945 (Includes a write up of many actions).


We Fought them in Gunboats

Lt Cdr Robert Hichens DSO* DSC** RNVR, Michael Joseph Ltd, London, 1994

"Hitch" was Senior Officer of the 8th MGB Flotilla and was killed by a sray bullet on the night of 12/13 April 1943



Mr Wallis Randall

CFVA Library

18 The Owl Mobile Home Park

Lippitts Hill

High Beech

Loughton

Essex 1G10 4AN


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