Operation Menace: The Dakar Expedition and the Dudley North Affair

by Arthur J Marder and Arthur J. Marder

Book Overview

Continuing on from Arthur Marder's previous book, From the Dardanelles to Oran: Studies of the Royal Navy in Peace 1915-1940 this next volume investigates the Allied expedition of September that year, with De Gaulle present, which unsuccessfully attempted to break the French at Dakar away from the Vichy Government. A pet operation of Prime Minister Churchill, the operation was undertaken against all advice, and it turned out to be a fiasco. In the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591147255
• ISBN13: 9781591147251
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.4"