TY  - BOOK
AU  - O'Keefe,David
TI  - One day in August: Ian Fleming, Enigma and the deadly raid on Dieppe 
SN  - 178578630X
PY  - 2020///
CY  - [London]
PB  - Icon Books Ltd
KW  - Fleming, Ian,
KW  - Dieppe Raid, 1942
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Cryptography
KW  - Military intelligence
KW  - Secret service
KW  - Great Britain
N1  - "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
N2  - 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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