The Dieppe Raid: The Story of the Disastrous 1942 Expedition (Twentieth-Century Battles)
by Robin Neillands
Twentieth-Century Battles
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The Dieppe Raid is one of World War II's most controversial hours. In 1942, a full two years before D-Day, thousands of men, mostly Canadian troops eager for their first taste of battle, were sent across the English Channel in a raid on the French port town of Dieppe. Air supremacy was not secured; the topography--a town hemmed in by tall cliffs and reached by steep beaches--meant any invasion was improbably difficult. The result was carnage: the beaches were turned into killing grounds even show more as the men came ashore, and whole battalions were cut to pieces. In this book, Robin Neillands has traced numerous surviving veterans of the Raid, in the United Kingdom and Canada, to tell the harrowing story of what actually took place, hour by hour, as disaster unfolded. He has also exhaustively explored all the archival evidence to establish as far as possible the paper trail of command, of who knew--or should have known--what was happening, and whether the whole debacle could have been prevented. The result is the definitive account of one of the Allies' darkest hours. show lessTags
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Good balanced account detailing the unbelievable amateurism that led to catastrophe that was Operation Jubilee
Good balanced account detailing the unbelievable amateurism that led to catastrophe that was Operation Jubilee
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Robin Neillands lectures on military history at the National Army Museum in London and for the Department of Further Education at the University of Oxford.
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Common Knowledge
- Important places*
- Dieppe, Normandië, Frankrijk
- Important events
- World War II
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- Genres
- History, Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 940.54214 — History & geography History of Europe History of Europe 1918- Military history of World War II Campaigns and battles by theatre European theatre France
- LCC
- D756.5 .D5 .N45 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania History (General) World War II (1939-1945)
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