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Chariot - Le Plus Grand Raid Commando De La Seconde Guerre Mondiale (French, Hardcover)
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Chariot - Le Plus Grand Raid Commando De La Seconde Guerre Mondiale (French, Hardcover)
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More than seventy-five years after wards, "Chariot" is still
thought of as the most daring and most spectacular commando
operation of the whole of WWII, called on the other side of the
Channel "the greatest raid of all time". Indeed you had to be mad
or British to go up the estuary of the River Loire at night, into
Saint-Nazaire in order to ram an old destroyer full of explosives
on a time fuse against the Joubert docks. And all this was done to
make the only dry-dock vast enough to take the super cruiser
Tirpitz, the terror of all the Allied navies, totally unusable.
This raid had as tremendous an impact in France as it did in
Britain, proving to the Allies and to all of occupied Europe that
the Third Reich was not invulnerable. To tell the story of this
extraordinary coup de main, Jean-Charles Stasi has consulted the
German, British and French archives, interviewed former commandoes
as well as the inhabitants of Saint-Nazaire who witnessed the raid.
His tale is lively and alert and is illustrated with a lot of
period photographs, as well as maps, drawings and boat profiles, to
plunge the reader into the heart of the action and to allow him
relive the preparations for this extraordinary operation. Text in
French.
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