The Suicide Raid: The Canadians at Dieppe, August 19th, 1942

by Norm Christie and N. M. Christie

Book Overview

In the early morning of Wednesday, August 19th, 1942, a 200 vessel convoycontaining 5,000 Canadian troops approached the French port of Dieppe. In the next few hours the Canadian force would be destroyed. The bodies of more than 900 Canadian men would be scattered along the water front and their vessels and equipment left burning and smouldering on the blood-stained beaches. The Dieppe Raid is one of the most bitter and controversial episodes in Canadian...

• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 189697936X
• ISBN13: 9781896979366
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: CEF Books
• Length: 42 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.