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One of the most memorable events of the Second World War took place on 19 August 1942, when the largest amphibious raiding force in modern history made its way across the English Channel towards the German-occupied French port of Dieppe. The result, a few hours later, was a disaster. That some 3,300 Canadian soldiers and officers should wait over two-and-a-half years for combat and then be killed, wounded, or captured in a single morning is one of the greatest tragedies of the Second World War. For more than forty-five years a cloud of mystery has hung over the event, which has seemed to defy all rational explanation. On the basis of much new research and a meticulous and sensitive analysis of all the forces - political, military, diplomatic, and personal - that shape the disaster, Villa casts new light on why it was executed when it was known to court failure, and who was responsible. This book contains revealing studies of Britain's chiefs of the Army, Navy, and Air Force who - in the midst of a war that seemed on the way to being lost - acquiesced in the ill-fated raid, and of Lord Louis Mountbatten, Chief of Combined Operations, whose responsibility of Dieppe becomes clear as in no other study to date. This is an engrossing analysis of decision-making, and of the numerous motivations that lay behind the execution of the raid on Dieppe. It is also a brilliant revisionist contribution to the literature of the Second World War. This new edition has been revised to include an epilogue with new evidence in support of the book's premise that the decision-making process was subverted.
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Brian Loring Villa is Professor of History, University of Ottawa.
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Condition: Aceptable. : Este libro de Brian Loring Villa examina en profundidad la controvertida incursión de Dieppe durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, centrándose en el papel de Lord Louis Mountbatten y las decisiones que llevaron a este desastroso evento. Villa examina las motivaciones políticas, militares y personales que influyeron en la ejecución de la operación, ofreciendo una nueva perspectiva sobre las responsabilidades y las consecuencias de la incursión. Esta edición revisada incluye nueva evidencia que respalda la premisa del libro sobre la subversión del proceso de toma de decisiones. EAN: 9780195410617 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Historia Título: Unauthorized Action: Mountbatten and the Dieppe Raid Autor: Brian Loring Villa Editorial: Oxford University Press Idioma: en Páginas: 336 Formato: tapa blanda. Seller Inventory # Happ-2025-06-05-5f660862
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