Allan Mallinson

Can the fiasco of the Dieppe Raid really be excused?

Patrick Bishop is sceptical about Mountbatten’s claim that without the painful lesson of Operation Jubilee, D-Day might have failed

Wounded Canadian soldiers photographed by a German military photographer after their capture at Dieppe in 1942. [Getty Images]
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  • Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942The Folly and the Sacrifice

    Patrick Bishop

    Viking, pp. 320, £20

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