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COMBINED OPERATIONS: The Official Story of the Commandos—Macmillan ($2).
This is the latest addition to the biggest-selling series of books in the world—the British Government's official accounts of the war (priced from 10¢ to 40¢). Bomber Command, Coastal Command and Battle of Britain alone have had total world sales of 12,000,000 copies—twice the last official sales total of Mein Kampf. Their anonymous author (revealed as Hilary St. George Saunders, the House of Commons assistant librarian) now turns his attention to the Commandos. Combined Operations, like its predecessors, has very lively passages indeed:
"Shortly before...
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