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Lambs to the slaughter: the fiasco of the Dieppe Raid, August 1942

31 October 2020

9:00 AM

31 October 2020

9:00 AM

One Day in August: Ian Fleming, Enigma and the Deadly Raid on Dieppe David O’Keefe

Icon Books, pp.476, 25

In carefree days which now seem so distant we used occasionally to take the Newhaven-Dieppe ferry. Docking after a long lunch, I would try to imagine the port during the infamous Dieppe Raid of August 1942. It is so clearly a natural defensive position that I could never work out how they expected to take it or, more importantly, why.

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