A GRIPPING TALE OF HEROIC FAILURE DURING THE DIEPPE RAID OF 1942'Patrick Bishop's
well-researched crisply written and utterly absorbing account of the Dieppe Raid tells a story
of heroism and futility that will live for the reader long afterwards' Andrew Roberts author
of Churchill: Walking with Destiny'Riveting and powerfully written. Patrick Bishop has turned
this tragic cautionary tale into a fascinating shrewd and timely reflection on leadership in a
time of crisis' Henry Hemming author of Our Man in New York____________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 9am on the day of attack one of its
architects already feared that the operation would go down as one of the great failures in
history. Confidence turned to carnage with nearly two thirds of the attackers dead wounded or
captured. It was claimed afterwards by its key players to be essential to D-Day with the media
telling listeners that it was a success -- but the tragedy was all too predictable.Using
first-hand testimony from combatants and civilians forensic analysis of the roles of
Mountbatten and Montgomery and source material from archives across several countries
bestselling author Patrick Bishop's gripping account brings Operation Jubilee powerfully and
vividly to life in an epic demonstration of how ambition folly and courage came together in
one of the most tragic episodes of the war.____________'A deeply humane lucidly written and
powerful tribute to some of the unsung heroes of the Second World War' Sunday Times on Bomber
Boys'This is the best kind of military history - the kind in which the author never loses sight
of the impact of war on its victims German as well as British and those who were left
behind... It reminds the rest of us what their war was all about' Evening Standard on Bomber
Boys
