The Invasion Before Normandy - The Secret Battle of Shipton Sands
Hoyt, Edwin P.
Publisher: London, Robert Hale
ISBN: 0709032668
Published: 1988
Condition: VG/--
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£11.80 with P&P in UK
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1st paperback edition in very good condition, minimal handling/shelf wear, binding is tight. 210 pages, 21 b&w photo illustrations. The first full account of a deliberately concealed major disaster during the Allied preparation for D-Day. Operation Tiger on Shipton Sands was one of the giant military exercises off the Devon coast in preparation for the D-Day landings. When part of the training force was surprised by nine German E-boats over 700 Americans were killed and hastily buried and news of the attack concealed. Security for the whole D-Day operation was threatened and confidence in a successful combined British and American attack was shaken. For the first time Edwin P. Hoyt examines the details of Operation Tiger and assesses its importance in Anglo-American relations and the military lessons learnt in readiness for D-Day.
Our Ref: M0099
