David O’Keefe One Day in August (Hardback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: One Day in AugustCondition: NewSubtitle: Ian Fleming, Enigma, and the Deadly Raid on DieppeAuthor: David O’KeefeFormat: HardbackISBN-10: 178578630XEAN: 9781785786303ISBN: 9781785786303Publisher: Icon BooksGenre: HistoryTopic: Military HistoryRelease Date: 11/05/2020Description: 'A lively and readable account' Spectator'A fine book ... well-written and well-researched' Washington TimesIn 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 StarLanguage: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 240mmItem Length: 162mmItem Width: 43mmItem Weight: 775gRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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