One day in August : Ian Fleming, enigma, and the deadly raid on Dieppe
O'Keefe, David, 1967-2020
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A new history of the hitherto inexplicable Dieppe raid of 1942 and its true purpose. 'A lively and readable account' Spectator 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? 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 Star
Main title:
Author:
O'Keefe, David, 1967-, author
Imprint:
London : Icon Books, 2020.
Collation:
496 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Originally published: Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2013.
ISBN:
9781785786303 (hbk)9781785786310 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
940.5421425940.542142
LC class:
D756.5.D5
Language:
English
Subject:
Dieppe Raid, 1942Fleming, Ian, 1908-1964 -- Career in military intelligenceWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Great BritainWarfare and DefenceEuropean historySecond World WarMilitary historyFranceTrue crimeMilitary & defence strategyGeneral & world historyHistory of the AmericasEspionage & secret servicesCanada20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
BRN:
3074591