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Eyewitness at Dieppe: The Only First-Hand Account of Wwii's Most Disastrous Raids

Eyewitness at Dieppe: The Only First-Hand Account of Wwii's Most Disastrous Raids

Reyburn, Ross

Paperback

Military BiographiesFrench History

Publisher Price: $29.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 30, 2027

ISBN10: 139905998X
ISBN13: 9781399059985
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Published: Oct 30 2027
Pages: 224
Language: English
A firsthand wartime account recounts the 1942 Dieppe raid, detailing Allied assault failures, civilian and military consequences, and the narrative's contested legacy.

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.

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.

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