Table of Contents

Raiders - "really keen men"; inventing - and training - the commandos; the special air service; by their deeds shall you know them; the long range desert group; glider-borne raiders at Eben Emael, May 1940; commandos in the Arctic, 1941; buccaneers of the SBS; combined operations pilotage parties; two Tobruk raids; the Rommel raid, Cyrenaica, 17/18 November 1941; the great raid on St Nazaire, 27 March 1942; the Bruneval Caper; "Pinprick Raids" on the French coast, 1942; Pacific raiders; cockleshell heroes; Dieppe, 18/19 August 1942; the Singapore raids, 1943-4; Australian raiders par excellence; Italian underwater raiders, 1941-5; the Mussolini snatch, 12 September 1943; the raid on Amiens Prison, 18 February 1944.