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Exercise Tiger: The Forgotten Sacrifice of the Silent Few
Wendy Susan Lawrence
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Description for Exercise Tiger: The Forgotten Sacrifice of the Silent Few
Hardcover. Using archive documents, letters, first-hand accounts and images, this book provides a new examination of Exercise Tiger, the tragic American D-Day rehearsal off the Devon coast in April 1944. It includes an exploration of the 'conspiracy' theories that have dogged this event for many years. Num Pages: 192 pages, 60 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWD; 3JJH; HBWQ; JWF; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 526.
Exercise Tiger was a series of operations off the South Devon coast in the spring of 1944, rehearsing for the forthcoming D-Day landings. Shrouded in mystery, one of these exercises ended in disaster for over 600 young American servicemen, as their operation was discovered by a patrol of German e-boats, which attacked, leaving two LSTs sunk and one badly damaged. The secret nature of these exercises, some claimed, led to a military cover-up and many families were not immediately informed of the nature of the deaths of their loved-ones. Over the months that followed, D-Day came and went, the war ... Read more
Exercise Tiger was a series of operations off the South Devon coast in the spring of 1944, rehearsing for the forthcoming D-Day landings. Shrouded in mystery, one of these exercises ended in disaster for over 600 young American servicemen, as their operation was discovered by a patrol of German e-boats, which attacked, leaving two LSTs sunk and one badly damaged. The secret nature of these exercises, some claimed, led to a military cover-up and many families were not immediately informed of the nature of the deaths of their loved-ones. Over the months that followed, D-Day came and went, the war ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fonthill Media Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Toadsmoor Road, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781551103
SKU
V9781781551103
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About Wendy Susan Lawrence
Wendy Lawrance was born and grew up in Surrey, attending school in Esher, where she developed an early interest in English Literature, especially that of the First World War. After twenty years running her own business in the graphic design industry, Wendy decided to fulfil her life's ambition and become a writer, which she has now been doing professionally for ... Read more
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