Secret Flotillas

Vol. II: Clandestine Sea Operations in the Western Mediterranean, North Africa and the Adriatic, 1940-1944

Brooks Richards

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2004
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781135774493
• Subtopic: Military & Maritime History
• Index: History

This authoritative publication by the official historian, the late Sir Brooks Richards, vividly describes and analyses the clandestine naval operations that took place during World War II.

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Unless otherwise stated, books in English were published in London, those in French in Paris.

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• List of Illustrations
• List of Maps
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements to the First Edition
• Acknowledgements to the Second Edition
• I. The Polish Predicament
• II. Mass Evacuations from the Marseilles Area and the Fidelity Tragedy
• III. Operations from Gibraltar to Morocco: July–October 1941
• IV. Krajewski’s Operations to Western Algeria: October 1941–January 1942
• V. Krajewski’s Further Plans for Operations to North Africa and Southern France: December 1941–March 1942
• VI. Operations from Gibraltar to Southern France: April–June 1942
• VII. The Coast Watching Flotilla and the Polish Special Operations Group
• VIII. Problems and Methods of Operating from Gibraltar to the South of France
• IX. Operations By Seawolf, Seadog and Tarana: July–September 1942
• X. Last of the Polish Evacuation Missions
• XI. The Changing Strategic Context In the Western Mediterranean
• XII. Renewed Priority for Operations to French North Africa
• XIII. SOE and OSS Prepare for TORCH
• XIV. The Last Phase of the CWF’s Operation: October–November 1942
• XV. Final Preparations for TORCH
• XVI. Unsuccessful Attempts to Revive Felucca Operations
• XVII. Operations By Sea for SIS and SOE In Tunisia
• XVIII. Clandestine Sea Transport Operations In the Western Mediterranean After TORCH
• XIX. Missions to Sardinia and Corsica: January–March 1943
• XX. Last Missions to Corsica Before the Italian Armistice and Its Liberation
• XXI. Operations from Bastia
• XXII. Early Operations In the Adriatic and Southern Italy
• XXIII. African Coastal Flotilla (Adriatic)
• XLIV. The Ferry Service
• XXV. SOSO(A) Taranto
• XXVI. A Pyrrhic Victory
• XXVII. LEGHORN 1944: The ACF’s Last Phase
• XXVIII. Clandestine Sea Operations to and from Nice
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Appendix A: Clandestine Sea Transport Operations from Gibraltar to French North Africa and the South Coasts of France and Spain
• Appendix B: Clandestine Sea Operations from Various Bases to Tunisia
• Appendix C: Operations from Algiers to Corsica, South Coast of France and Spain
• Appendix D: Clandestine Operations from Corsica to South Coast of France
• Appendix E: Sea Operations Analysis—West Coast Italy and Islands Except Corsica
• Appendix F: Sea Operations Analysis—Adriatic (Including Eastern Italy, Yugoslavia, Albania and Greece)
• Bibliography