Raiders

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: Century
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2012
Edition: First Edition

Description: 294 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout. Six Raids That Changed The Course Of History. Taranto-The First True Combined Operation Carried Out By All Three British Forces-A Cross Channel Raid Into France-An Assault On Hitler's Atomic Bomb Plant In Norway-The Attack On St. Nazaire On Normandy-The First Allies Holding Two Bridges To Prevent An Armoured German Counter-attack.

Publishers Description: Six raids that changed the course of history.Operation Judgement: one of the most spectacular efforts of World War Two, where obsolete British biplanes attacked the Italian fleet in Taranto.Operation Archery: the first true combined operation carried out by all three British forces. THis successful raid persuaded Hitler that the Allies were planning a full scale invasion.Operation Biting: a cross-Channel raid into France that was the first major attack by the British Airborne Division and its first battle honour.Operation Gunnerside: a dramatic demolition assault on Hitler's atomic bomb plant in Norway.Operation Chariot: 'the greatest raid of all': the British amphibious attack on the Normandie dry dock at St Nazaire in German-occupied France.Operation Deadstick: the story of the first Allies into the fray on D-Day, tasked with seizing and holding two bridges to prevent an armoured German counter-attack.

ISBN: 9781780890555