One Day in August: Ian Fleming, Enigma, and the Deadly Raid on Dieppe by David O'Keefe

One Day in August: Ian Fleming, Enigma, and the Deadly Raid on Dieppe

David O'Keefe

496 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional slow-paced
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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...

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