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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 : Jim Lotz
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
ISBN 13 : 1459401735
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (594 download)
Download or read book Disaster at Dieppe written by Jim Lotz and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early morning of August 19, 1942, over five thousand Canadian troops landed on the beach at Dieppe to reclaim the shore from German troops occupying France. It was a mission doomed from the start. Mere hours later, over two-thirds of the men were dead, wounded, or taken prisoner by German forces. It was the worst disaster in Canadian military history, and historians have found no convincing explanation for why the operation was mounted in the first place. Through first-hand accounts, ground-level descriptions, and extensive research, author Jim Lotz takes us through the events of that morning. What emerges is a portrait of courage--of men doing what they could to maintain the honour of their regiments and save the lives of their comrades against impossible odds. The story of the Dieppe raid is made up of a hundred lesser-known tales of Canadian soldiers, which Jim Lotz brings together in this short and readable book.
Author : Jim Lotz
Publisher : Lorimer
ISBN 13 : 9781459401723
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Disaster at Dieppe written by Jim Lotz and published by Lorimer. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early morning of August 19, 1942, over five thousand Canadian troops landed on the beach at Dieppe to reclaim the shore from German troops occupying France. It was a mission doomed from the start. Mere hours later, over two-thirds of the men were dead, wounded, or taken prisoner by German forces. It was the worst disaster in Canadian military history, and historians have found no convincing explanation for why the operation was mounted in the first place. Through first-hand accounts, ground-level descriptions, and extensive research, author Jim Lotz takes us through the events of that morning. What emerges is a portrait of courage--of men doing what they could to maintain the honour of their regiments and save the lives of their comrades against impossible odds. The story of the Dieppe raid is made up of a hundred lesser-known tales of Canadian soldiers, which Jim Lotz brings together in this short and readable book.
Author : William Whitehead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dieppe, 1942 written by William Whitehead and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Narayan Sengupta
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387374141
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Disaster at Dieppe: World War II's Little D-Day written by Narayan Sengupta and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 19, 1942, 5,000 Canadian, 1,000 British, 50 American and 24 French troops attacked Dieppe, France. This was Operation Jubilee, World War II's first large amphibious operation. The Allies had hundreds of vessels, Churchill tanks, Commandos, Spitfires, Hurricanes, P-51 Mustangs, B-17s, Typhoons, etc. They expected an easy win. However, they met S-boats, determined German troops and hundreds of Luftwaffe aircraft including superb FW-190s, Stukas, Me-109s, Ju-88s, Do-217s and He-111s, flak and artillery. The sky flooded with aircraft, making it the Western Front's biggest air battle. Germany's pilots were superb. Though outnumbered, they shot down over 100 Allied aircraft. In hours, the landing Canadians had a massive defeat, losing five out of six men and all their tanks. But the lessons learned at Dieppe saved 10 times as many lives at Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944. "Disaster at Dieppe" is a well-illustrated fast read. 167 pages, 9"" x 6"", 66 photos and maps.
Author : Ronald Atkin
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (767 download)
Download or read book Dieppe 1942 - The Jubilee Disaster written by Ronald Atkin and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1942 the war was almost at the end of its third year and the position of the Allies was desperate, both in Europe and on the Middle and Far Eastern fronts. The hard-pressed Russians were urging Winston Churchill to open a Second Front, about which he was understandably cool. Eventually it was decided to mount a "reconnaissance in force" against the French coast and at dawn on 19 August five thousand soldiers, mainly Canadians, were landed at and around Dieppe. The venture was doomed from the outset as en route the raiding force blundered into a German convoy heading for the same destination, alerting the port's defenders. What followed was nine hours of carnage. Ronald Atkin has pieced together the full story of that day from all sides and the result is a masterly account of one of the most extraordinary - and tragic - episodes of the Second World War.Praise for Ronald Atkin: 'A starkly evocative picture of a landmark of carnage which was later described as 'one of the great failures of history' - Daily Mail 'Well researched and very readable... Mr Atkin is of the Cornelius Ryan school of historian, bringing his canvas to life by innumerable interviews with participators' - Daily Telegraph 'A Fleet Street journalist, Mr Atkin has scrupulously avoided the temptations of his craft. He is neither vulgarly dramatic nor breezily speculative but simply offers, within a sensible framework of fact, a litany of the lost and the lucky who lived... a plain tale, blood-drenched by survivors' memories' - The Times 'A thoroughly researched piece of work with a keen eye for the human and humorous aspects' - Birmingham Post Ronald Atkin is a writer and journalist, educated at High Pavement Grammar School Nottingham. He won awards for his sports journalism in 1981, 1984 and 1991, and is the author of numerous books, including Revolution! Mexico 1910-20, For the Love of Tennis, Great Bars of the World and The Book of Wimbledon.
Author : Hugh George Henry (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (858 download)
Download or read book Disaster at Dieppe written by Hugh George Henry (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781719550895
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (58 download)
Download or read book The Dieppe Raid written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a table of contents for further reading "I thought it most important that a large-scale operation should take place this summer, and military opinion seemed unanimous that until an operation on that scale was undertaken, no responsible general would take the responsibility of planning the main invasion." - Prime Minister Winston Churchill The invasion across the Channel came in the early morning hours of June 6, 1944. That day, forever known as D-Day, the Allies commenced Operation Overlord by staging the largest and most complex amphibious invasion in human history. The complex operation would require tightly coordinated naval and air bombardment, paratroopers, and even inflatable tanks that would be able to fire on fortifications from the coastline, all while landing over 150,000 men across nearly 70 miles of French beaches. Given the incredibly complex plan, it's no surprise that General Eisenhower had already written a letter apologizing for the failure of the invasion, which he carried in his coat pocket throughout the day. D-Day would turn out to be a remarkable success, but it wasn't the first time the Allies tried to land in France after the Nazi conquest of Western Europe. On the 19th of August in 1942, Allied troops launched a raid on the port of Dieppe in German-occupied France, but this attack, codenamed Operation Jubilee, was a disaster. Of the 6,000 ground troops deployed, two-thirds were killed, captured, or wounded, and among the raid's objectives, only one could have been considered a success. Britain proved it was committed to a campaign to drive the Nazis out of Western Europe, but making that one point came at a huge cost in lives, most of them Canadian. Top British officials later claimed the lessons learned in the failed raid were applied to D-Day a few years later, with Churchill asserting, "My Impression of 'Jubilee' is that the results fully justified the heavy cost. Not surprisingly, the Canadians begged to differ. Why was this raid launched? What happened on the day? And how did it all go so horribly wrong? The Dieppe Raid: The History and Legacy of the Allies' Failed Operation to Land on the French Coast during World War II looks at how the plans were formed, and what happened as a result of the raid. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Dieppe like never before.
Author : James K. McDonell
Publisher : GeneralStore PublishingHouse
ISBN 13 : 9781896182711
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (827 download)
Download or read book Lords of the North written by James K. McDonell and published by GeneralStore PublishingHouse. This book was released on 1997 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Variant spellings of MacDonald include McDonald, Macdonald, Macdonell, MacDonell, and McDonell. .
Author : Mark Thompson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476638381
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Disputed Decisions of World War II written by Mark Thompson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former Harvard professor of decision science and game theory draws on those disciplines in this review of controversial strategic and tactical decisions of World War II. Allied leaders--although outstanding in many ways--sometimes botched what now is termed meta-decision making or deciding how to decide. Operation Jubilee, a single-division raid on Dieppe, France, in August 1942, for example, illustrated the pitfalls of groupthink. In the Allied invasion of North Africa three months later, American and British leaders fell victim to the planning fallacy: having unrealistically rosy expectations of an easy victory. In Sicily in the summer of 1943, they violated the millennia-old principle of command unity--now re-endorsed and elaborated on by modern theorists. Had Allied strategists understood the game theory of bluffing, in January 1944 they might well not have landed two-plus divisions at Anzio in Italy.
Author : Newman Skyles
Publisher : Newman Skyles
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Dieppe's Revenge written by Newman Skyles and published by Newman Skyles. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Dieppe was a costly operation for the Allies. Of the approximately 6,000 men who took part in the raid, over 3,600 were killed, wounded, or captured. The Canadians, in particular, suffered heavy casualties, with many taken prisoner. Despite the high cost of lives and equipment, the Dieppe raid provided valuable lessons for the Allies. They realized the importance of better planning, coordination, and intelligence gathering for future amphibious operations. These lessons were applied in planning the successful D-Day landings in Normandy in 1944. There are so many sad stories during World War 2, and this, my friend, is only one of them.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Professional Journal of the United States Army written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : karsten friedrich
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1446795845
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (467 download)
Download or read book The Cruel Slaughter of Adolf Hitler II written by karsten friedrich and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Loring Villa
Publisher : Oxford [England] ; Toronto : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195410617
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Unauthorized Action written by Brian Loring Villa and published by Oxford [England] ; Toronto : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most memorable events of the Second World War took place on 19 August 1942, when the largest amphibious raiding force in modern history made its way across the English Channel towards the German-occupied French port of Dieppe. The result, a few hours later, was a disaster. That some 3,300 Canadian soldiers and officers should wait over two-and-a-half years for combat and then be killed, wounded, or captured in a single morning is one of the greatest tragedies of the Second World War. For more than forty-five years a cloud of mystery has hung over the event, which has seemed to defy all rational explanation. On the basis of much new research and a meticulous and sensitive analysis of all the forces - political, military, diplomatic, and personal - that shape the disaster, Villa casts new light on why it was executed when it was known to court failure, and who was responsible. This book contains revealing studies of Britain's chiefs of the Army, Navy, and Air Force who - in the midst of a war that seemed on the way to being lost - acquiesced in the ill-fated raid, and of Lord Louis Mountbatten, Chief of Combined Operations, whose responsibility of Dieppe becomes clear as in no other study to date. This is an engrossing analysis of decision-making, and of the numerous motivations that lay behind the execution of the raid on Dieppe. It is also a brilliant revisionist contribution to the literature of the Second World War. This new edition has been revised to include an epilogue with new evidence in support of the book's premise that the decision-making process was subverted.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Military Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ross Reyburn
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399060015
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Eyewitness at Dieppe written by Ross Reyburn and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1942, Allied forces mounted an attack on the German-held port of Dieppe; titled Operation Jubilee, it represented a rehearsal for invasion. The amphibious attack saw over 6,000 infantrymen, predominantly Canadian, put ashore, tasked with destroying German structures and gathering intelligence. The doomed raid was an abject failure, and became Canada’s worst military disaster. Eyewitness at Dieppe is a long-overdue reissue of New Zealand-born writer Wallace Reyburn’s dramatic account of the raid. He was with the first soldiers clambering ashore, and aboard the last ship returning to England after six hours of carnage. Awarded an OBE as the only war correspondent to witness the street fighting first-hand, Reyburn was fortunate not be numbered among Dieppe’s dead, suffering just a minor wound inflicted by mortar shell fragments. His book, Rehearsal for Invasion was a wartime bestseller. Accompanied by freelance journalist Ross Reyburn’s new foreword on his father’s account, this new edition tells us more about Wallace’s intriguing life and details the shortcomings of his father’s book, dictated by wartime censorship corrected in the post-war years through a withering condemnation of raid’s mastermind Lord Mountbatten.
Author : Lyman B Kirkpatrick Jr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042971310X
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Captains Without Eyes written by Lyman B Kirkpatrick Jr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a former Inspector General and Executive Director of the CIA. It describes the role of the failure in gathering and analyzing intelligence behind Barbarossa (German attack on Russia), Pearl Harbor, the 1942 Allied landing at Dieppe, France, the "Market Garden" assault on Arnhem ("A Bridge Too Far"), and the Battle of the Bulge.
