REHEARSAL FOR INVASION
Written by Wallace Reyburn
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.
in 1943
- Categorised in:
- MILITARY
- WORLD WAR II
REHEARSAL FOR INVASION
Written by Wallace Reyburn.
Stock no. 2137684
1st.
1943.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
An Eyewitness Story of the Dieppe Raid. Red cloth with gilt title to spine. B/w photos. Name in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is creased with edge-tears and chips; some loss; some grubby marks.
Front cover
Contents
- I. Why Dieppe was Raided
- II. The Planning and Special Training
- III. A Convoy Encounter disrupts the Plan
- IV. We leave for France
- V. We go Ashore
- VI. In the Streets of Pourville
- VII. Colonel Merritt at the Bridge
- VIII. The Air Battle
- IX. Germans versus Canadian Cold Steel
- X. The Withdrawal Starts
- XI. On the Headquarters Destroyer
- XII. In the Ward-room
- XIII. Back to England