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Zeebrugge - The Greatest Raid of All (Hardcover)
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Zeebrugge - The Greatest Raid of All (Hardcover)
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List price R612
Loot Price R483
Discovery Miles 4 830
You Save R129 (21%)
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The combined forces invasion of the Belgian port of Zeebrugge on 23
April 1918 remains one of Britain's most glorious military
undertakings; not quite as epic a failure as the charge of the
Light Brigade, or as well publicised as the Dam Busters raid, but
with many of the same basic ingredients. A force drawn from the
Royal Navy and Royal Marines set out on ships and submarines to try
to block the key strategic port, in a bold attempt to stem the
catastrophic losses being inflicted on British shipping by German
submarines. It meant attacking a heavily fortified German naval
base. The tide, calm weather and the right wind direction for a
smoke screen were crucial to the plan. Judged purely on results, it
can only be considered a partial strategic success. Casualties were
high and the base only partially blocked. Nonetheless, it came to
represent the embodiment of the bulldog spirit, the peculiarly
British fighting elan, the belief that anything was possible with
enough dash and daring. The essential story of the Zeebrugge
mission has been told before, but never through the direct,
first-hand accounts of its survivors - including that of Lieutenant
Richard Sandford, VC, the acknowledged hero of the day, and the
author's great uncle. The fire and bloodshed of the occasion is the
book's centrepiece, but there is also room for the family and
private lives of the men who volunteered in their hundreds for what
they knew effectively to be a suicide mission. Zeebrugge gives a
very real sense of the existence of the ordinary British men and
women of 100 years ago - made extraordinary by their role in what
Winston Churchill called the 'most intrepid and heroic single armed
adventure of the Great War.'
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