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Operation Basalt

- The British Raid on Sark and Hitler's Commando Order
Af: Eric Lee Engelsk Paperback

Operation Basalt

- The British Raid on Sark and Hitler's Commando Order
Af: Eric Lee Engelsk Paperback
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German soldiers assigned to guard the tiny Channel Island of Sark described it as a ‘little Paradise’ and, because it was never bombed by the RAF, the best air-raid shelter in all of Europe. But paradise for them came to a bloody end in October 1942 when a small group of British Commandos raided the island, capturing one German soldier and killing several others. Operation Basalt would have been a footnote in history but for the reaction of Hitler, who believed that British soldiers executed several Germans who had already surrendered and whose hands were bound. Days after the raid, he issued the infamous ‘Commando Order’, a death sentence for those Allied commandos who fell into German hands. Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews with survivors of the period, Eric Lee has written the definitive account of the raid, putting it into the context of the German occupation of British lands during the war.

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German soldiers assigned to guard the tiny Channel Island of Sark described it as a ‘little Paradise’ and, because it was never bombed by the RAF, the best air-raid shelter in all of Europe. But paradise for them came to a bloody end in October 1942 when a small group of British Commandos raided the island, capturing one German soldier and killing several others. Operation Basalt would have been a footnote in history but for the reaction of Hitler, who believed that British soldiers executed several Germans who had already surrendered and whose hands were bound. Days after the raid, he issued the infamous ‘Commando Order’, a death sentence for those Allied commandos who fell into German hands. Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews with survivors of the period, Eric Lee has written the definitive account of the raid, putting it into the context of the German occupation of British lands during the war.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 0
ISBN-13: 9780750984218
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 075098421X
Kategori: Militærhistorie
Udg. Dato: 1 sep 2017
Længde: 18mm
Bredde: 197mm
Højde: 131mm
Forlag: The History Press Ltd
Oplagsdato: 1 sep 2017
Forfatter(e): Eric Lee
Forfatter(e) Eric Lee


Kategori Militærhistorie


ISBN-13 9780750984218


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 0


Udgave


Længde 18mm


Bredde 197mm


Højde 131mm


Udg. Dato 1 sep 2017


Oplagsdato 1 sep 2017


Forlag The History Press Ltd