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Author : R. W. Thompson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (471 download)
Download or read book Dieppe at Dawn written by R. W. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Reginald William Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780856175114
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (751 download)
Download or read book Dieppe at Dawn written by Reginald William Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander B. Austin
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786253135
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)
Download or read book We Landed At Dawn; The Story Of The Dieppe Raid written by Alexander B. Austin and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only war correspondent who accompanied the Allied Dieppe raid tells the story of the brave, heroic but ultimately futile assault landing which would lay the foundation for the success in Normandy two years later. Alexander Berry Austin was a noted war correspondent who worked for the London Herald during the Second World War. He was exceptionally dedicated and would often “embed”, to use a modern term, with Allied units during the most dangerous and demanding fighting including the Battle of Britain, the Dieppe raid, the Allied landings at Bizerte and the Salerno landing during which he lost his life to a German landmine. During the preparation for “We Landed At Dawn” he trained extensively with the elite Commando units that were due to make the ambitious invasion attempt.
Author : Mark Zuehlke
Publisher : D & M Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1553658361
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (536 download)
Download or read book Tragedy at Dieppe written by Mark Zuehlke and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2012-10-05 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its trademark "you are there" style, Mark Zuehlke's tenth Canadian Battle Series volume tells the story of the 1942 Dieppe raid. Nicknamed "The Poor Man's Monte Carlo," Dieppe had no strategic importance, but with the Soviet Union thrown on the ropes by German invasion and America having just entered the war, Britain was under intense pressure to launch a major cross-Channel attack against France. Since 1939, Canadian troops had massed in Britain and trained for the inevitable day of the mass invasion of Europe that would finally occur in 1944. But the Canadian public and many politicians were impatient to see Canadian soldiers fight sooner. The first major rehearsal proved such a shambles the raid was pushed back to the end of July only to be cancelled by poor weather. Later, in a decision still shrouded in controversy, the operation was reborn. Dieppe however did not go smoothly. Drawing on rare archival documents and personal interviews, Mark Zuehlke examines how the raid came to be and why it went so tragically wrong. Ultimately, Tragedy at Dieppe honors the bravery and sacrifice of those who fought and died that fateful day on the beaches of Dieppe.
Author : Reginald William Thompson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (184 download)
Download or read book Dieppe at Dawn written by Reginald William Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Grehan
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1399067230
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Dieppe Raid written by John Grehan and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2023-10-26 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As dawn was breaking on the morning of 19 August 1942, Allied troops leapt ashore to the east and west of the French port of Dieppe. These were British commandoes accompanied by U.S. Rangers, tasked to silence the German gun batteries that flanked Dieppe. Other troops the men of the 2nd Canadian Division landed closer to Dieppe to capture the German positions that overlooked the port while, minutes later, the main body of the predominantly Canadian assaulting force began clambering from landing craft that had run onto the beach along Dieppes seafront. This was the start of Operation Jubilee, the Allies most ambitious assault upon Hitlers so-called Fortress Europe it quickly became a bloodbath. The early months of 1942 had been difficult ones for Prime Minister Churchill. Stalin was demanding action in Western Europe to lessen the pressure of the 280 German divisions that were bearing down upon Stalingrad. Roosevelt was insisting that U.S. soldiers must start fighting the Germans in Europe, and Mackenzie King, the Canadian Prime Minister, desperately needed Canadian troops to become involved in the war to keep his politically divided nation together. Churchills response to these measures was to authorize a super-raid upon German-held territory, and the target selected by the planners was Dieppe. Apart from the notable success of No.4 Commando, the raid was a disaster with more than 50 per cent of the 6,086 men who landed being killed, wounded, or taken prisoner, plus all the Churchill tanks landed in support of the infantry suffered mechanical failure or were shelled into smoking wrecks. Yet amid the scenes slaughter, of confusion, and communication breakdown, were acts of almost unimaginable heroism, ingenuity, determination, and self-sacrifice to which the awarding of two Victoria Crosses paid a worthy tribute. There were also special missions associated with the raid, the details of which remained a closely guarded secret until long after the war. This book opens a window on Operation Jubilee, allowing the reader a rare insight into the death and destruction inflicted upon the Allied force during just a few hours, and of the damage done to Dieppe itself, with many of the photographs being taken by the victorious German defenders. The raid saw the heaviest casualty figures experienced by Canadians in the Second World War, and the photographs in this book are a stark reminder of that fateful day in late summer of 1942.
Author : Robin Neillands
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253347817
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (478 download)
Download or read book The Dieppe Raid written by Robin Neillands and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Channel in a raid on the French port town of Dieppe. Air supremacy was not secured; the topography of the town and its surroundings - hemmed in by tall cliffs and steep beaches - meant any invasion was improbably difficult; the result was carnage, the beaches turned into killing grounds even as the men came ashore, and whole regiments literally decimated. Why was the Raid ever mounted? Was the whole thing even, as has been darkly alleged, expected and even intended to fail, a cynical conspiracy to prove to the Americans, at the expense of so many Canadian lives, the impracticability of staging the Normandy landings for another two years? Robin Neillands goes behind the myths to tell what really happened, and why.
Author : A. B. Austin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258969974
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (699 download)
Download or read book We Landed at Dawn written by A. B. Austin and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1943 edition.
Author : David O'Keefe
Publisher : Icon Books
ISBN 13 : 1785786318
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)
Download or read book One Day in August written by David O'Keefe and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A lively and readable account' Spectator 'A fine book ... well-written and well-researched' Washington Times In less than six hours in August 1942, nearly 1,000 British, Canadian and American commandos died in the French port of Dieppe in an operation that for decades seemed to have no real purpose. Was it a dry-run for D-Day, or perhaps a gesture by the Allies to placate Stalin's impatience for a second front in the west? Historian David O'Keefe uses hitherto classified intelligence archives to prove that this catastrophic and apparently futile raid was in fact a mission, set up by Ian Fleming of British Naval Intelligence as part of a 'pinch' policy designed to capture material relating to the four-rotor Enigma Machine that would permit codebreakers like Alan Turing at Bletchley Park to turn the tide of the Second World War. 'A fast-paced and convincing book ... that clears up decades of misinformation about the ignoble raid' Toronto Star
Author : Graham A Thomas
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1526786095
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book The Dieppe Raid written by Graham A Thomas and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2024-11-30 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Allied landings at Dieppe in German-occupied France in August 1942 are one the most famous amphibious operations of the Second World War and many books have been written about them, mostly from the Allied point of view. The German side of the story has been neglected, and that is why Graham Thomas’s fresh account is so valuable. He reconstructs the immediate response of the Germans to the landings, gives a graphic detailed description of their actions throughout, and looks at the tactical and strategic lessons they drew from them. Each phase and aspect of the action is depicted using a broad range of sources including official reports, correspondence and recollections – the preliminary British commando attacks on the gun batteries, the landings themselves, the German defenses and preparations, and their counter-attacks, and the associated naval and air campaigns. The result is a finely balanced and incisive reassessment of this remarkable operation. It also offers the reader an engrossing account of one of the most dramatic episodes in the war in Western Europe.
Author : JOHN. NICOLL GREHAN (ALEXANDER.)
Publisher : Images of War
ISBN 13 : 9781399067201
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (672 download)
Download or read book The Dieppe Raid written by JOHN. NICOLL GREHAN (ALEXANDER.) and published by Images of War. This book was released on 2023-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald Atkin
Publisher : London : Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dieppe 1942 written by Ronald Atkin and published by London : Macmillan. This book was released on 1980 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick Bishop
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241986001
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Operation Jubilee written by Patrick Bishop and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the warm night of 18 August 1942, a flotilla pushed out into the flat water of the Channel. They were to seize the German-held port of Dieppe, destroy key installations, seize intelligence material and then sail for home. This was the greatest amphibious operation since Gallipoli, with the biggest accumulation of fighter power ever assembled. But by the morning of the attack, one of its architects already feared that the operation would "go down as one of the great failures in history". Its key players claimed it was essential to D-Day, with the media telling listeners that it was a success -- but the tragedy was all too predictable. Using first-hand testimony from combatants and civilians, and colourful analysis of the roles of Mountbatten and Montgomery, bestselling author Patrick Bishop's gripping account brings Operation Jubilee powerfully and vividly to life, in an epic demonstration of how ambition, folly and courage came together in one of the most tragic episodes of the war.
Author : Michael Julius King
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Rangers written by Michael Julius King and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Leavenworth Paper is a critical reconstruction of World War II Ranger operations conducted at or near Djebel el Ank, Tunisia; Porto Empedocle, Sicily; Cisterna, Italy; Zerf, Germany; and Cabanatuan in the Philippines. It is not intended to be a comprehensive account of World War II Ranger operations, for such a study would have to include numerous minor actions that are too poorly documented to be studied to advantage. It is, however, representative for it examines several types of operations conducted against the troops of three enemy nations in a variety of physical and tactical environments. As such, it draws a wide range of lessons useful to combat leaders who may have to conduct such operations or be on guard against them in the future. Many factors determined the outcomes of the operations featured in this Leavenworth Paper, and of these there are four that are important enough to merit special emphasis. These are surprise, the quality of opposing forces, the success of friendly forces with which the Rangers were cooperating, and popular support.
Author : David R. O'Keefe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780345807694
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (76 download)
Download or read book One Day in August written by David R. O'Keefe and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magnificent and engrossing, One Day in August reveals in full for the first time the "Ultra Secret" story behind one of WW2's most controversial mysteries--and one of Canada's most sorrowful moments. In a narrative as powerful and moving as it is authoritative, David O'Keefe rewrites history, connecting Canada's tragedy at Dieppe with an extraordinary and colourful cast of characters--from the young Commander Ian Fleming, later to become the creator of the James Bond novels, and his team of crack commandos to the code-breaking scientists of Bletchley Park (the closely guarded heart of Britain's wartime Intelligence and code-breaking work) to those responsible for the planning and conduct of the Dieppe Raid--Admiral John Godfrey, Lord Louis Mountbatten, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and others. The astonishing story critically changes what we thought we knew. For seven decades, the objective for the raid has been one of the most perplexing mysteries of WWII. In less than six hours on August 19, 1942, nearly one thousand Canadians--as well as British and Americans--lay dead or dying on the beaches around the French seaside town, with over two thousand other Canadians wounded or captured. These awful losses have left a legacy of bitterness, recrimination and controversy. In the absence of concrete reasons for the raid, myriad theories ranging from incompetence to conspiracy developed. Over almost two decades of research, sifting through countless recently declassified Intelligence documents, David O'Keefe skillfully pieces together the story like a jigsaw puzzle to reveal the prime reason behind the raid: a highly secret mission designed, in one of Britain's darkest times, to redress the balance of the war. One Day in August provides a thrilling, multi-layered story that fundamentally changes our understanding of this most tragic and pivotal chapter in Canada's history.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (224 download)
Download or read book Raid on Dieppe (naval Operations), 19th August 1942 written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hugh G. Henry
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (595 download)
Download or read book The Planning, Intelligence, Execution and Aftermath of the Dieppe Raid, 19 August 1942 written by Hugh G. Henry and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
