The Dieppe Raid: Triumph out of Disaster

The 1942 Allied raid on Nazi-occupied France and its lessons for D-Day.

Dieppe's chert beach and cliff immediately following the raid on 19 August 1942. A Dingo Scout Car has been abandoned.As Bernard Fergusson wrote in his book The Watery Maze (1961): ‘The Dieppe raid has become distorted in the public memory, and much rubbish has been talked and written about it'.

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