The Commando Raids in Sark in 1943, by Eric Preston

The Commando Raids in Sark in 1943, by Eric Preston, subtitled 'Disaster of the French/British joint raids from Dartmouth'

Published by the Dartmouth History Research Group in 2007, 24 pages. A5 size booklet. (N3579)

From the fall of Dunkirk in 1940 to the Normandy invasion of 1944, the German forces occupying France and the Channel Islands were constantly harried by raiding parties of allied commandos crossing the Channel in small, fast boats under the cover of darkness.

Eric Preston’s booklet is mainly the tale of two such raids on Sark in December 1943, which were carried out by forces based in Dartmouth. But he sets the scene with accounts of some of the other excursions that took place during the earlier years of the war.

The booklet includes several black and white photographs

Condition of the booklet is generally excellent. The cover is clean and tidy, the staple spine is intact and all pages are clean, intact, unblemished and tightly bound.