Bibliography

The following books provide recommended reading on the history of the Royal Marines and the majority should be available through any public library. They can also be consulted by making an appointment to use the reading room in the library of the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.

1664–1964 – An Account of the Royal Marines Tercentenary Celebrations (Privately published, 1964)

AMBLER, JOHN – The Royal Marines Band Service (Published by RM Historical Society 2003,Special Publication No 28)

AMBLER, JOHN - World War I Remembered: Royal Marine Buglers and Musicians at War (RMHS Special Publication 2019)

AMBLER, JOHN & LITTLE, MATTHEW G – Sea Soldiers of Portsmouth – Royal Marines at Eastney and Fort Cumberland (Halsgrove, 2008)

AMBLER, JOHN   – The History of the Royal Marines Band Service (Published by RM Historical Society, 2003. Volume II, 2011)

ASHDOWN, LORD PADDY – A Brilliant Little Operation: The Full Story of the Cockleshell Heroes (Aurum Press, 2012)

BAKER, Jean - A Marine at Gallipoli and on the Western Front: First in, Last Out - The Diary of Harry Askin (Pen & Sword Military 2015)

BEADLE, J C – The Light Blue Lanyard: 50 Years with 40 Commando RM (Privately published, 1992)

BEAVER, PAUL – Today’s Royal Marines (Patrick Stevens, 1988)

BENTINCK, MARK  - Mutiny in Murmansk, ‘The Hidden  Shame” (RM in North Russia 1918/19) RMHS SPECIAL PUBLICATION  21      

BITTNER, DONALD  AND COLEBY, J M  - Royal Marines Spies of World War One Era RMHS SPECIAL PUBLICATION  15      

BITTNER, DONALD  -The Ghost of a General and The Royal Marine Officers of 1914  RMHS SPECIAL PUBLICATION  6       

BITTNER, DONALD F - A Soldier Gone to Sea: Memoir of a Royal Marine in Both World Wars (McFarland & Co 2016)

BLUMBERG, H E - Extracts from Royal Marine Records Part 1 - 1755 to 92    RMHS SPECIAL PUBLICATION  2        

BLUMBERG, H E - Extracts from Royal Marine Records Part 2 - 1793 to 1836 by General Sir H E Blumberg KCB   RMHS SPECIAL PUBLICATION  4        

BLUMBERG, H E - Extracts from Royal Marine Records Part 3 - 1837 to 1914  RMHS SPECIAL PUBLICATION  5         

BLUMBERG, IR H E – Britain’s Sea Soldiers: 1914–19 (Swift & Co. 1927 and RMHS Special Publication No 42 2014)

BROOKS, RICHARD – The   Royal Marines: 1664 to the Present (Constable, 2002)

BROWN, JARRA - 46 Miles: A Journey of Repatriation and Humbling Respect (Menin House 2015)

BRUCE LOCKHART, SIR ROBERT   – The Marines Were There (Putnam, 1950)

CLAPP, MICHAEL   & SOUTHBY-TAILYOUR, EWEN – Amphibious Assault Falklands: The Battle of San Carlos Water (Orion, 1996)

CROCKETT, ANTHONY   – Green Beret, Red Star (Eyre & Spottiswood, 1954)

CROUCHER, MATT GC – Bullet Proof (Century, 2009)

DAVEY, WILFRED  - Hail and Farewell RMHS SPECIAL PUBLICATION  1           

DAVEY, WILFRED  - The Royal Marines and the Dockyards 1755 to 1949 RMHS SPECIAL PUBLICATION  3   

DE BOLSTER, MARC - 47 Royal Marine Commando: An Inside Story 1943-1946 (Fonthill Media 2014)

DONALD, A.J. – The Story of  Colours in The Royal Marines (16 pages in full colour) RMHS SPECIAL PUBLICATION  23      

EASTY, JOHN; SCOTT, JAMES  AND CLARK, RALPH - Marines of The First Fleet (Australian Bicentennial) from the journals of Private John Easty, Sergeant James Scott and Lieutenant Ralph Clark RMHS SPECIAL PUBLICATION  11      

EDWARDS, BRIAN  - At the Turn of the Centuries  (An anniversary portrait of the Marines in  the RN of  1700, 1800, 1900 and after) RMHS SPECIAL PUBLICATION  22      

EDWARDS, BRIAN - Formative Years 1803 to 1806: a Perspective of the Royal Marines in the Navy of John Jervis, Earl St Vincent and Horatio, Lord Nelson (RMHS Special Publication No 31 2005)

EDWARDS, BRIAN - Marines from the Medway (Story behind their Memorials in the Medway Towns) RMHS SPECIAL PUBLICATION  20      

EDWARDS, BRIAN (EDITOR)– After Limbang, A Royal Marines Anthology of Experiences of the Confrontation with Indonesia December 1962 to September 1966 (RMHS Special Publication No 36)

EDYE, L – Historical Records of The Royal Marines: Vol I (Harrison, 1893)

FARQUHARSON-ROBERTS, D A  - ROYAL MARINES AND D-DAY COMPILED (SECOND EDITION 2012) RMHS SPECIAL PUBLICATION  16     

FIELD, COLONEL CYRIL – Britain’s Sea Soldiers (Lyceum Press, 1924)

FORD, KEN – D-Day Commando: From Normandy to the Maas with 48 RM Commando (Sutton Publishing, 2003)

FORD, KEN – The Cockleshell Raid, Bordeaux 1942 (Osprey, 2010)

FORFAR, JOHN   – From Omaha to the Scheldt: The Story of 47 RM Commando (Tuckwell Press, 2001)

FOSTER, NIGEL – Making of a Royal Marine Commando (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987)

FRASER, E AND   CARR-LAUGHTON, L G – The Royal Marine Artillery (RUSI, 1930)

GARDINER, IAN – The Yompers: With 45 Commando in the Falklands War (Pen and Sword, 2012)

GROVER, G – Short History of the Royal Marines (Gale & Polden, Second Edition, 1959)

HAMPSHIRE, A CECIL – The Royal Marines Tercentenary (The Commandant General Royal Marines, 1964)

HAYHURST, FRED – Green Berets In Korea (Vanguard Press, 2003)

HMSO – The Royal Marines: The Admiralty record of their achievements 1939–1943

HOLLIS, SIR LESLIE – One Marine’s Tale (Andre Deutsch 1956)

HOLLOWAY, SM - From trench and turret: Royal Marines letters and diaries 1914-1918 (Royal Marines Museum; 1990)

JAMESON, THOMAS H  - Expedition to Siberia 1919 (The Great War - Eastern Front)  RMHS SPECIAL PUBLICATION  10      

JENKINS, HAYDN - One Time Marine (A Bootneck’s Tale)  RMHS SPECIAL PUBLICATION  7        

JENKINS, W G – Commando Subaltern at War:  RM Operations in Yugoslavia and Italy 1944/45 (Greenhill, 1996)

KINGSWELL, PETER  - Fidelity Will  Haunt  Me  Till  I  Die  (Fourth Edition 2010) RMHS SPECIAL PUBLICATION  13     

LADD, JAMES D – By Sea By Land: The Authorised History of the Royal Marines Commandos (Harper Collins, 1999)

LADD, JAMES D – Commandos and Rangers of The Second World War (Macdonald and Jane’s, 1978)

LADD, JAMES D – Inside the Commandos (Arms and Armour Press, 1984)

LADD, JAMES D – Royal Marine Commando (Hamlyn, 1982)

LADD, JAMES D – SBS – The Invisible Raiders (Arms and Armour Press, 1983)

LANE, ANDREW – Royal Marines Commandos in the Falklands War: A Pictorial History (Halsgrove, 2000)

LANE, ANDREW – Royal Marines Deal: A Pictorial History (Halsgrove, 2000)

LANE, ANDREW   – The Royal Marines Barracks Eastney: A Pictorial History (Halsgrove, 1998)

LITTLE, MATTHEW G – The Royal Marines & the Victoria Cross (RM Museum, 2002)

LITTLE, MATTHEW G & BROOKS, RICHARD – Tracing your Royal Marines Ancestors (Pen and Sword, 2008)

LOCKHART, SIR ROBERT BRUCE KCMG – The Marines Were There: The Story of the Royal Marines in the Second World War (Putnam, 1950) LOVERING, T T A (EDITOR) – Amphibious Assault: Manoeuvre from the Sea (Seafarer Books, 2007)

LYMAN, ROBERT – Operation Suicide – The Remarkable Story of the Cockleshell Raid (Quercus, 2012)

MACKENZIE, TONY – 44(RM) Commando – Achnacarry to the Arakan: A Diary of the Commando at War, August 1943 to March 1947 (Tom Donovan, 1996)

MARSH, A E – Flying Marines (Privately published, 1980)

MCCONVILLE, MICHAEL – Nothing Much To Lose: The Story of 2nd Battalion Royal Marines and 43 Commando Royal Marines (Privately published, 1992)

MCCONVILLE, MICHAEL – Tell it to the Royal Marines: A Royal Marines Ragbag (Cross Publishing, 2003)

MILES, ALBERT – The Shadow on my Evening (Vanguard Press, 2001)

MITCHELL, RAYMOND – Marine Commando: Sicily and Salerno with 41 RM Commando (Robert Hale, 1988)

MITCHELL, RAYMOND – They Did What Was Asked of Them: 41 (Royal Marines) Commando 1942–1946 (Firebird Books, 1996)

MOULTON, J L – Haste to the Battle: A Marine Commando at War (Cassell, 1963)

MOULTON, J L – The Royal Marines (RM Museum, 1981)

MOULTON, JL – Battle for Antwerp (Ian Allan 1978)

NEILLANDS, ROBIN – By Sea and Land (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1987)

NICHOLAS, PAUL H, - The History of the Royal Marines: the Early Years 1664-1842: Volume 2, (Leonaur 2014)

NICOLAS, PAUL H – Historical Record of the Royal Marine Forces (Boone, 1845)

NICOLAS, PAUL H, - The History of the Royal Marines: the Early Years 1664-1842: Volume 1 (Leonaur 2014)

NORMAN, MIKE & JONES, MICHAEL - The Falklands War - There and Back Again: The Story of Naval Party 8901 (Pen & Sword Military 2019)

Nothing Impossible: A Portrait of the Royal Marines (Third Millennium Publishing, 2010)

 NUTTING, DAVID EDITOR) – Attain by Surprise: The Story of 30 Assault Unit – Intelligence by Capture in WW II (David Colver, 1997)

 OAKLEY, DEREK - Behind Japanese Lines (The untold story Royal Marines Detachment 385)RMHS SPECIAL PUBLICATION  18      

 OAKLEY, DEREK – Fiddler On The March: A Biography of Lieutenant Colonel Sir Vivian Dunn (RM Historical Society, 2000)

 OAKLEY, DEREK – The Commandos: World War Two to the Present (Arms and Armour Press, 1987)

 OAKLEY, DEREK – The Royal Marines into the Nineties (Commandant General Royal Marines, 1993)

 OAKLEY, DEREK & SMITH, PETER C – The Royal Marines (Spellmount, 1988)

 PARKER, JOHN – SBS – The Inside Story of the Special Boat Service PHILLIPS, C E LUCAS – Cockleshell Heroes (Heinemann, 1956)

PERRETT ANTHONY J  - Royal Marines in East Devon - A History of Lympstone and Dalditch Camps (Second Edition 2011) RMHS SPECIAL PUBLICATION  9        

PERRETT, ANTHONY J - Royal Marines in Wales  RMHS SPECIAL PUBLICATION  14      

QUICK, STANLEY L AND REID, CHIP - Lion in the Bay: The British Invasion of the Chesapeake, 1813-14 (Naval Institute Press 2015)

REECE, M J – Flying Royal Marines (RMHS, 2012)

REYNOLDS, DAVID – Commando: The Illustrated History of Britain’s Green Berets from Dieppe to Afghanistan (Sutton, 2001)

RICHARDSON, SS  - The Royal  Marines and Hong Kong (from 1840 to 1997)  RMHS SPECIAL PUBLICATION  19      

ROSE, MARKHAM   – The Story of the Royal Marines (Seventh Edition, 1935)

SMITH, PETER C – Per Mare Per Terram (Balfour, 1974)

SOUTHBY-TAILYOUR, EWEN - 3 Commando Brigade Helmand Assault (Ebury Publishing, 2010)

SOUTHBY-TAILYOUR, EWEN - Blondie: Founder of the SBS and Modern Single Handed Ocean Racing (Leo Cooper 1998)

SOUTHBY-TAILYOUR, EWEN – Reasons in Writing: A Commando’s View of the Falklands War (Leo Cooper, 1993)

SOUTHBY-TAILYOUR, EWEN    – Helmand, Afghanistan, 3 Commando Brigade (Ebury Publishing, 2008)

STADDEN, NEWARK   AND DONALD   – UNIFORMS   OF THE ROYAL MARINES FROM 1664 TO THE PRESENT DAY (Pompadour Gallery, 1997)

STEVENS, PADDY – The Long Summer, 45 Commando RM 1963-64, Aden, Tanganyika and the Radfan (RMHS - Special Publication No 35, 2009)

TAYLOR. KEITH - The waist-high cornfield: the story of the 46 Royal Marine Commando and the battle for Rots in Normandy (Privately published 2017)

The Royal Marines (Pitkin Pictorials Ltd, 1971)

The Royal Marines Museum – The Story of Britain’s Sea Soldiers (RM Museum, 1989)

THOMAS, GARETH – Records Of The Royal Marines: PRO Readers’Guide No 10 (PRO Publications, 1994)

THOMAS, PETER - 41 Independent Commando RM - Korea 1950 - 52  (Third Edition 2011) RMHS SPECIAL PUBLICATION  8        

THOMPSON, JULIAN – The Royal Marines: From Sea Soldiers to a Special Force (Sidgwick & Jackson, 2000)

THOMPSON, JULIAN   – No Picnic – 3 Commando Brigade in the South Atlantic: 1982 (Leo ooper/Secker and Warburg 1985)

TOWNSEND, FREDDIE OBE – A Most Unlikely Marine (Privately Published 2004)

TRENDELL, JOHN – Colonel Bogey to the Fore (The Blue Band Magazine, 1991)

VAUX, NICK – March to the South Atlantic (Buchan and Enright, 1986)

WRIGHT, HARRY - Left Behind at Zeebrugge (The Incredible Story of Sergeant Harry DSM, MSM, RMLI)  (Second Edition 2017, first edition published 1990 as the ‘Memoirs of Sergeant Harry Wright (Zeebrugge 1918 and Aftermath P.O.W.) RMHS SPECIAL PUBLICATION  12      

YARDLEY WRIGHT, DEREK - Something about St Ives (Reminiscences of the Commando Mountain Warfare Centre) RMHS SPECIAL PUBLICATION  17     

YOUNG, DAVID – Four Five – The Story of 45 Commando RM 1943–1971 (Leo Cooper, 1972)

YOUNG, JOHN ROBERT – The Royal Marines (Guild Publishing, 1991)

ZERBE, BRITT - The Birth of the Royal Marines, 1664-1802, (Boydell Press, 2013)