The excruciating drama and truly heroic endeavour of the Dieppe Raid is captured clearly and dispassionately in this compelling official account.

The Naval Review – reviewed by Peter Sparkes, REAR ADMIRAL

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Despatches Autumn 2019

An extraordinary account of Churchill's response to Stalin's request for Britain to open a second front to draw the Germans away from Russia.

Books Monthly

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Mercator, January – February 2020

This book is based on the official Battle Summary No 33, providing an accurate report of the landings and the progress of the battle. The typical treatment since 1945 has been to describe the Dieppe Landings as an unmitigated disaster but this account places the landings and subsequent battle in its true perspective – Most Highly Recommended.

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Firetrench

The Dieppe Raid remains a fascinating subject to study, whether from books, documents, talking to the veterans or visiting the battlefield. If you want a deeper understanding of Dieppe and Operation Jubilee, this is definitely the book for you. Highly Recommended.

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Redcoat and Khaki

"This is a well presented valuable book that will be of considerable interest to those interested in amphibious warfare or how an operation was planned and executed during the Second World War."

Robert Bartlett, October 2019

"This is a well presented valuable book that will be of considerable interest to those interested in amphibious warfare or how an operation was planned and executed during the Second World War."

Robert Bartlett, October 2019

This book provides the reader with an insight into the minds of the men that controlled the progression of the war as regards operation Jubilee and the subsequent landings on D-Day. This provides a no holds barred breakdown of the operation and the aspects that failed and why, but it does turn around the opinion held by many that this raid was a total failure as it wasn’t and the mostly Canadian forces did not sacrifice themselves for nothing. A very interesting read that is written and presented in a brusk military style and that provides a great breadth and depth of information.

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Armorama

This new book on the Dieppe Raid I found to be one of the most interesting I have seen on the subject... A marvellous reference of this famous raid packed with factual information that should be great for anyone interested in the history of allied assaults on Hitler's Fortress Europe.

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Military Model Scene, Robin Buckland

That the Dieppe Raid was a failure is accepted but this book places it as a necessary step to the successful assault on Normandy. Learning curve says that it was necessary to fail to succeed but one still has to question that an assault on a port with a shingle beach with the inherent problems of the defender enjoying internal lines of supply was really necessary. But perhaps then politics needed to be guided by a managed failure in order to gain focus and traction on delivering success when the main invasions followed. A good book, well researched with a very large series of Appendices which in fact number well over half the book. These are excellent sources for anybody wanting a deeper understanding of Dieppe and Operation Jubilee.

Michael McCarthy. Battlefield Guide

Michael McCarthy