Item LAYCOCK 6/28 - Correspondence, 1946-1964, relating to publications on combined operations

Correspondence relating to publications on Combined Operations, including questionnaire (uncompleted) on the history of the Commandos, possibly used for researching The Green Beret, by Hilary St George Saunders, 8 Aug 1946; letters to Laycock from Alan Campbell Johnson, Maj Gen V D Thomas, Rear Admiral Henry Edward Horan and others on an official history of Combined Operations including forward by Laycock to a book on Combined Operations, Survey by Starlight, by Ralph Neville and related correspondence with Nigel Willmott, Dec 1947; draft letter from V Adm Lord Louis Mountbatten, Viceroy of India to Maj Gen Godfrey Edward Wildman-Lushington, proposing the official history should be written in order to counteract negative reports of Combined Operations in the press, Aug 1948; letters from Bernard Fergusson on his book on Combined Operations, The Watery Maze; correspondence and comments on 'Combined Operations handbook, 10b: amphibious raids', Jan 1950; correspondence between Laycock and D M Davin on the battle for Crete for a publication on New Zealand at war, Sep 1951; letter from Laycock to Sir James Butler, editor of The War at Sea, (part of the official history of World War Two) by Stephen Wentworth Roskill on the misrepresentation of the role Combined Operations in amphibious warfare, 1954; commentary by David George Carr Sutherland, wartime commander of the Special Boat Service to Col Hugh Stewart Gillies on a paper on the future of airborne forces, 10 Mar 1964. 1 file