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One day in August : Ian Fleming, Enigma and the deadly raid on Dieppe / David O'Keefe.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: [London] : Icon Books Ltd, 2020.Description: xviii, 476 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 178578630X
  • 9781785786303
Subject(s):
Contents:
The 'Canadian' albatross -- A very special bond -- A ruthless start -- Annus Mirabilis -- Swimming with sharks -- Fade to black -- Kick at the darkness -- "Authorized looters" -- Darkness to daylight -- All the King's men -- Dieppe by design -- All essential features -- Of blood and thunder -- All in on the main beach.
Summary: 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? Canadian 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.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 940.5421 O41 Available 33111010437446
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A new history of the hitherto inexplicable Dieppe raid of 1942 and its true purpose.

"Previously published in Canada in 2013 by Knopf Canada"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The 'Canadian' albatross -- A very special bond -- A ruthless start -- Annus Mirabilis -- Swimming with sharks -- Fade to black -- Kick at the darkness -- "Authorized looters" -- Darkness to daylight -- All the King's men -- Dieppe by design -- All essential features -- Of blood and thunder -- All in on the main beach.

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? Canadian 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.

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