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July 21, 2023

Eyewitness at Dieppe The Only First-Hand Account of WWII’s Most Disastrous Raid

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Free Download Eyewitness at Dieppe: The Only First-Hand Account of WWII’s Most Disastrous Raid by Ross Reyburn
English | October 7, 2022 | ISBN: 1399059971 | 192 pages | PDF | 10 Mb
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.

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July 8, 2023

The Germans and the Dieppe Raid

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Free Download The Germans and the Dieppe Raid: How Hitler’s Wehrmacht Crushed Operation Jubilee
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1399030604 | 296 Pages | EPUB | 5 MB
The German part in the 19 August 1942 Dieppe raid has largely been ignored. Launched by Winston Churchill to appease his Soviet counterparts, Operation JUBILEE was one of the Allies’ greatest debacles of the war. The majority of the 6,100 soldiers and marines dispatched by Lord Louis Mountbatten were captured or killed. Just 2,211 of the 4,963 Canadians involved returned to England. Two years later the Canadian Army fought from Normandy into Germany with fewer men captured than at Dieppe.

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