Hampshire, A. Cecil, — THE SECRET NAVIES.

Sphere, London, 1980, 1st in imprint, paperback, 318pp, 8pp, half tone photo ills., maps and diagram in text, [i] ads., coloured pictorial montage upper wrapper, an account of three naval units specialising in clandestine activities during WW2: the 15th Motor Gunboat Flotilla which, apart from the RAF, was the principal means of maintaining communication with occupied Europe; the Royal Marine Boom Patrol Detachment, a cover name for a unit specialising in attacking ships in harbour; and the Intelligence Assault Unit, designated as 30 Commando, which, with and sometimes ahead of the advance troops, sought to gather German secret and technical documents and material before they could be destroyed, edges tanned, spine slightly sunned, very good plus,