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Operation Basalt - The British Raid on Sark and Hitler's Commando Order (Paperback)
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Operation Basalt - The British Raid on Sark and Hitler's Commando Order (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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