Operation Jubilee

A GRIPPING TALE OF BRAVERY DURING THE DIEPPE RAID OF 1942

''An exemplary account of this wartime fiasco'' Max Hastings, Sunday Times

''well-researched, crisply written and utterly absorbing . . . will live for the reader long afterwards'' Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny
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On the warm night of 18 August 1942, a flotilla pushed out into the flat water of the Channel. They were to seize the German-held port of Dieppe, destroy key installations, seize intelligence material and then sail for home.

This was the greatest amphibious operation since Gallipoli, with the biggest accumulation of fighter power ever assembled. But by the morning of the attack, one of its architects already feared that the operation would "go down as one of the great failures in history". Its key players claimed it was essential to D-Day, with the media telling listeners that it was a success -- but the tragedy w