Jonathan Boff

Spitfires of the sea: the secret exploits of the Royal Navy’s 15th Motor Gun Boat Flotilla

Tim Spicer pays tribute to the brave unit that repeatedly crossed the Channel at dead of night to liaise with the resistance in Brittany from 1942 to 1944

A motor gun boat c.1942. [Alamy] 
issue 09 October 2021
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  • A Dangerous Enterprise: Secret War at Sea

    Tim Spicer

    Barbreck, pp. 312, £18

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