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Kill Rommel! - Operation Flipper 1941 (Paperback)
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Kill Rommel! - Operation Flipper 1941 (Paperback)
Series: Raid
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Loot Price R444
Discovery Miles 4 440
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A detailed, illustrated analysis of the British Commandos'
audacious attempt to assassinate Rommel in 1941. In November 1941,
a small party of British Commandos landed by submarine in Libya,
tasked with the assassination of General Erwin Rommel, commander of
the German forces in North Africa, who was believed to be staying
in a villa near the coast. Three men - Lt-Col Geoffrey Keyes, Capt
Robin Campbell and Sgt Jack Terry - stormed the villa, but the
German general was nowhere to be found. In the confused fighting
Keyes was killed and Campbell wounded; only two raiders would
escape, one of whom was Terry. The raid made headlines round the
free world, and Keyes was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross. Yet
in truth the raid had been a glorious failure, a mission bedevilled
by bad planning and poor intelligence. Even so, crucial lessons
were learned, particularly by the Special Air Service - who carried
out their first mission on the same night as the raid on Rommel's
HQ.
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