Ian Fleming's Commandos
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Ian Fleming's Commandos: The Story of the Legendary 30 Assault Unit
By Nicholas Rankin... Vladimir 'Popski', 162-3, 166 Pennell, Lt George, 74, 75 Perry (3OAU Marine), 285 Petacci, Clara, 296 Pétain, Marshal Philippe, 79, 82, 99, 154 Petrie, Sir David, 133 Philadelphia, USS, 192 Phillips, Lt E. R., 209 Phillips, VAdm.
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Ian Fleming's Commandos: The Story of the Legendary 30 Assault Unit
By Nicholas RankinMarcus, 93-4 Oliver, Sir Henry, 132-3. 29–30, 38; Rushbrooke as DNI, 142; SIS links, 27, 44, 275; small size of, 21; terrain intelligence, 138–9; topographical intelligence, 137–8; see also Commandos; Godfrey, Adm. John Neillands, ...
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Ian Fleming's Commandos: The Story of the Legendary 30 Assault Unit
By Nicholas RankinBuilt in Glasgow just before the war as a flat-bottomed gunboat for the River Yangtze in China, and already a shrapnel-scarred veteran of the Dunkirk debacle, she was now captained by Commander Robert Ryder VC. Ryder had won Britain's ...
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Ian Fleming's Commandos: The Story of the Legendary 30 Assault Unit
By Nicholas RankinSixty thousand files were initially shipped to London in many thousands of Munich beer crates. The bulk of the older material, some dating back to 1847, went to the care of NID 24 at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, while thousands of ...
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Ian Fleming's Commandos: The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII
By Nicholas RankinIn 1942, Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming was personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence - the dynamic figure behind James Bond's fictional chief, 'M'. Here, Fleming had a brilliant idea: why not set up a unit of authorised ...