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Kieffer Commando (French, Hardcover)
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Kieffer Commando (French, Hardcover)
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Tuesday, 6th June 1944: 130,000 Allied soldiers arrived on the
beaches of Normandy. Among them, 177 Frenchmen. If this number
seems modest, its symbolic weight is immense. These men who had
refused the Nazi occupation rediscovered the land of their birth,
arms in hand, four years after having left. They formed part of the
commandos, those elite corps created by Churchill after the
disastrous evacuation of Dunkirk. At their head, Philippe Kieffer,
a banker for 40 years, whose enthusiasm and obstinacy had combined
to convince the British to accept the French at the heart of their
shock troops. But the importance of "Commando Kieffer" to the
success of Operation Overlord is not simply limited to the
symbolic. On D-Day, the French Green Berets would achieve, at the
price of heavy losses, all of their objectives, notably the taking
of the casino at Ouistreham, transformed by the Germans into a
powerfully fortified bunker. Illustrated with many photos, maps,
plans, and infographics which plunge the reader into the heart of
the action, this book permits one to follow the extroardinary
course of action more closely than ever, from their exhaustive
training in Great Britain up until the final raids at the beginning
of 1945.
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