Raiders from the Sea
Subtitle: The Story of the Special Boat Service in WWII
Publisher: Greenhill Book
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781784383459
Subjects: Great britain, royal marine forces; World war, 1939-1945, campaigns; World war, 1939-1945, mediterranean sea
Description: The Special Boat Service (SBS) was a small force during World War II, never more than about 300 men. But that did not stop it from inflicting great damage on the enemy. In the Mediterranean arena and in the Aegean, which the Germans controlled after the fall of Greece and Crete, this small commando force kept up a constant campaign of harassment, thus pinning down enemy forces and preventing their joining other fronts. John Lodwick took part in the SBS Mediterranean campaign and writes from personal experience with the panache and verve of the squadron itself.