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One Day in August

Ian Fleming, Enigma, and the Deadly Raid on Dieppe

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One Day in August

By: David O'Keefe
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In less than six hours in August 1942, nearly 1,000 British, Canadian, and American commandos died in the French port of Dieppe in an operation that, for decades, seemed to have no real purpose. Was it a dry-run for D-Day, or perhaps a gesture by the Allies to placate Stalin’s impatience for a second front in the west?

Canadian historian David O’Keefe uses hitherto classified intelligence archives to prove that this catastrophic and apparently futile raid was, in fact, a mission set up by Ian Fleming of British Naval Intelligence as part of a “pinch” policy designed to capture material relating to the four-rotor Enigma Machine that would permit codebreakers like Alan Turing at Bletchley Park to turn the tide of the Second World War.

©2020 David O'Keefe (P)2021 Dreamscape Media, LLC Americas Canada Espionage Military True Crime War Stalin
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excellent book, well researched and written, make you totally rethink Dieppe and also other commando operations during the war

wgat an amazing story, turns military history on its head

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