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Operation Jubilee : Dieppe, 1942 : the folly and the sacrifice / Patrick Bishop.
In the bestselling tradition of Ben Macintyre, Tim Cook, and other bestselling World War II historians, 'Operation Jubilee' is a riveting and updated telling of the tragic Dieppe raid of 1942. The UK National Archives, which contain an enormous trove of material, has only recently become declassified and available to Patrick Bishop for this book. Bishop spent 25 years as a foreign correspondent covering conflicts around the world.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780771096662 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xi, 386 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
- Edition: Hardcover edition.
- Publisher: Toronto : Signal/McClelland & Stewart, 2021.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Subject: | Dieppe Raid, 1942. World War, 1939-1945 > Canada. Canada > Armed Forces > History > World War, 1939-1945. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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In the tradition of Ben Macintyre, Tim Cook, and other bestselling World War Two historians, a riveting and updated telling of the tragic Dieppe raid of 1942.
On the moonless night of August 18th 1942 a flotilla pushes out into the flat water of the Channel. They are to seize the German-held port of Dieppe and hold it for at least twenty-four hours, showing the Soviets the Allies were serious about a second front and to get experience ahead of a full-scale invasion. But confidence turned to carnage with nearly two thirds of the attackers dead, wounded or captured. The raid - the Royal Air Force's biggest battle since 1940- was both a disaster and a milestone in the narrative of the war. It was cited as essential to D-Day, but the tragedy was all too predictable.
Using first-hand testimony and highlighting recently declassified source material from archives across several countries, bestselling author Patrick Bishop's account of this doomed endeavour reveals the big picture and unearths telling details that fully bring Operation Jubilee to life for the first time.
