Disaster Before D-Day: Unravelling the Tragedy at Slapton Sands

by Stephen Wynn

This is a book of two stories. The first is the sad tale of how at least 749 American servicemen lost their lives on a pre-D-Day landing exercise, code-named 'Operation Tiger, ' on the evening of 23/24 April 1943. The second, was the unanswerable question of whether the attacking E-Boats of the German Kriegsmarine had fully grasped the importance of what they had stumbled across.

Because of the time scale between the operation and the actual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526735113
• ISBN13: 9781526735119
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"