Assault from the Sea, first published in 1949, is Rear-Admiral Maund's account of the development of the Royal Navy's landing craft and their use operationally between 1939 and 1945. 'It is the purpose of this book to show how this knowledge and equipment were gradually collected. It starts in the days before the last war, when most people thought landing operations would be impossible, and traces their development to the days of the great awakening at Dunkirk and on to present times. It shows how developments in material, tactics and planning were evolved by original thought, training, planning operations and experiments and it indicates the influence of political and strategic considerations upon this development.'-Preface
