Dress Rehearsal - The Story Of Dieppe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dress Rehearsal - The Story Of Dieppe write by Quentin Reynolds. This book was released on 2013-05-31. Dress Rehearsal - The Story Of Dieppe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Quentin Reynolds gets himself attached to the Dieppe raid (August 19, 1942) and tells us the story. The events of the book span only a few days, but Reynolds takes us on diversions ranging from a long excerpt of one of his Colliers pieces telling us why it's too early to open a second front to the miracle of plastic surgery.
Tragedy at Dieppe
Tragedy at Dieppe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tragedy at Dieppe write by Mark Zuehlke. This book was released on 2012. Tragedy at Dieppe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Now in paper! The gripping story of the Canadian Army's disastrous raid on Dieppe -- the tenth instalment of the bestselling Canadian Battle Series. Nicknamed "the Poor Man's Monte Carlo," Dieppe had no strategic importance in World War II -- but the decision to assault it in August 1942 with the largest raid mounted to that date was political. With the Soviet Union thrown on the ropes by German invasion and America having just entered the war, Britain was under intense pressure to launch a major cross-Channel attack. In Canada, too, the public was calling for action, impatient to see Canadian soldiers wrap up their training in Britain and get into the war. Almost 5,000 Canadians formed the core of a 6,000-strong force. By the raid's end, 913 would be dead or mortally wounded, 1,946 would be prisoners of war and the Dieppe raid would become Canada's most costly day of World War II. Drawing on rare archival documents and personal interviews, Mark Zuehlke examines how the raid came to be and why it went so tragically wrong. From the clashes of personality and ambition among those masterminding the raid to the experiences of the common soldier left to carry it out, this tenth instalment of the Canadian Battle Series tells a compelling, unflinching story.
Eyewitness at Dieppe
Eyewitness at Dieppe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eyewitness at Dieppe write by Ross Reyburn. This book was released on 2022-10-20. Eyewitness at Dieppe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. He was with the first soldiers clambering ashore, and aboard the last ship returning to England after six hours of carnage. 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.
Disaster at Dieppe
Disaster at Dieppe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Disaster at Dieppe write by Jim Lotz. This book was released on 2012-10-23. Disaster at Dieppe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the early morning of August 19, 1942, over five thousand Canadian troops landed on the beach at Dieppe to reclaim the shore from German troops occupying France. It was a mission doomed from the start. Mere hours later, over two-thirds of the men were dead, wounded, or taken prisoner by German forces. It was the worst disaster in Canadian military history, and historians have found no convincing explanation for why the operation was mounted in the first place. Through first-hand accounts, ground-level descriptions, and extensive research, author Jim Lotz takes us through the events of that morning. What emerges is a portrait of courage--of men doing what they could to maintain the honour of their regiments and save the lives of their comrades against impossible odds. The story of the Dieppe raid is made up of a hundred lesser-known tales of Canadian soldiers, which Jim Lotz brings together in this short and readable book.
The Information Front
The Information Front - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Information Front write by Timothy Balzer. This book was released on 2011. The Information Front available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In wartime, capturing the hearts and minds of the citizenry is arguably as important as victory on the battlefield. The Information Front explores the Canadian military’s use of public relations units to manage news during the Second World War. These specialized units were responsible for providing sufficient and positive news coverage to Canadians at home. This fascinating study traces the transformation of an emergent PR organization into an efficient publicity machine. It also scrutinizes news coverage and PR activities during major Canadian operations at Dieppe, Sicily, and Normandy to reveal how the military used censorship and propaganda to rally support for the war effort.
