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A Recommended Reading List from the Imperial War Museum |
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The Department of Books of the Imperial War Museum in London have prepared a recommended reading list (No. 134) on the Royal Marines. The preface to this January 23, 2001 list states: "This is not a complete bibliography but a selected list of items that should prove particularly useful and be relatively widely available."
| J.C. Beadle | The Light Blue Lanyard: 50 Years with 40 Commando Royal Marines. 1992 |
| Nick Van Der Bijl | The Royal Marines, 1939-93. 1994 |
| H.E. Blumberg | Britain's Sea Soldiers: A Record of the Royal Marines During the War 1914-19. 1927 |
| George A. Brown | Commando Gallantry Awards of World War II. 1991 |
| Colin John Bruce | Invaders: British and American Experience of Seaborne Landings, 1939-1945. 1999 |
| Horace Bruckshaw | The Diaries of Private Horace Bruckshaw, 1915-16. 1979 |
| Ian Dear | Marines at War. 1982 |
| Brian Edwards | Marines from the Medway: The Story Behind Their Memorials in the Medway Towns. 1998 |
| Edward Fraser & L.G. Carr-Laughton | The Royal Marine Artillery, 1804-1923. 1930 |
| J.A. Good, compiler | A Register of Royal Marines War Deaths, 1939-1945. 1986-87 |
| A. Cecil Hampshire | The Secret Navies. 1978 |
| W.G. Jenkins | Commando Subaltern at War: Royal Marine Operations in Yugoslavia and Italy, 1944-45. 1996 |
| P.K.W. Johnson | The Story of 46 Commando, Royal Marines. 1946 |
| James D. Ladd | S.B.S. the Invisible Raiders: The History of the Special Boat Squadron from World War Two to the Present. 1983 |
| James D. Ladd | Inside the Commandos: A Pictorial History from World War Two to the Present. 1984 |
| James D. Ladd | Royal Marine Comando. 1982 |
| James D. Ladd | By Sea, By Land: The Royal Marines, 1919-1997: An Authorized History. Rev. Ed. 1998 |
| Robert Bruce Lockhart | The Marines Were There: The Story of the Royal Marines in the Second World War. 1950 |
| Tony Mackenzie | 44(R.M.) Commando: Achnacarry to the Araken: A Diary of the Commando at War, August 1943 to March 1947. 1996 |
| Michael McConville | Nothing Much to Lose: Story of 2nd Battalion Royal Marines and 43 Commando Marines, 1940-1945. 1992 |
| Roben Neillands | By Sea and Land: The Royal Marines Commandos: A History, 1942-1982. 1987 |
| John Parker | SBS: The Inside Story of the Special Boat Service. 1997 |
| Royal Marines Historical Society | With Full and Grateful Hearts: A Register of Royal Marine Deaths, 1914-1919. 1991 |
| Bryan Samain | Commando Men: The Story of a Royal Marine Commando in World war Two. 1988 |
| Peter C. Smith | The Royal Marines: A Pictorial History, 1664-1987. 1988 |
| Julian Thompson | No Picnic: 3 Commando Brigade in the South Atlantic: 1982. 1992 |
| Julian Thompson | The Royal Marines: From Sea Soldiers to a Special Force. 2000 |
| John Trendell | Operation Music-Maker: The Story of Royal Marines Bands. 1982 |
| P.H.B. Wall & G.A.M. Ritson | The Royal Marines Pocket Book. 1945 |
| David Young | Four Five: The Story of 45 Commando Royal marines, 1943-1971. 1972 |
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