The Forgotten Dead: The True Story of Exercise Tiger, the Disastrous Rehearsal for D-Day

by Ken Small and Mark Rogerson

27 April 1944. Exercise Tiger. German E-boats intercept rehearsals for the D-Day landings... On a dark night in 1944, a beautiful stretch of the Devon coast became the scene of desperate horror. Tales began to leak out of night-time explosions and seaborne activity. This was practice for Exercise Tiger, the main rehearsal for the Utah Beach landings... This fiasco, in which nearly 1,000 soldiers died, was buried by officials until it was almost forgotten...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472834496
• ISBN13: 9781472834492
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.7"