BOOK REVIEW: 'One Day in August' - Washington Times
I reached out to David O’Keefe and I asked him why the Dieppe Raid was controversial, tragic and something of a mystery. “In less than 9 hours on August 19th, 1942, over 1,000 Allied soldiers, sailors and airmen died in a raid on the German-held port of Dieppe, France in the English Channel,” Mr. O’Keefe said. “The vast majority of these deaths, 907, were taken by the Canadians, but the British and the Americans (fighting their first actions against Hitler in Europe) also paid a heavy toll. Right from the start, the excuses given for the inception and the intent behind the raid did ...
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