D-DAY: June 6, 1944. The Climatic Battle of World War II. Illustrated edition.
Pp. xx+748, text illustrations (some full and double page) and maps (some double page), pictorial endpapers, glossary, endnotes, bibliography, appendix, index; thick demy 4yo; black boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; Simon & Schuster, London, 2014. First U.K. edition. *Interesting SAS material included not recorded elsewhere (to my knowledge). Operation Titanic is recorded elsewhere but the involvement of Captain M.R.D. Foot (name spelt correctly on both pages 187 and 236 whereas incorrectly on page 216 in the first 1994 edition), as Brigade Intelligence officer in SAS, is not. He chose the operation name (Titanic) which involved dropping about 500 dummy parachutists midway between Le Havre and Rouen which exploded on landing. These were followed by 2 SAS teams, each of 4, equipped with a tape recorder to be played after landing (played soldiers' conversations interspersed with the sounds of small arms fire), Very pistols and ammunition to continue the allusion that there was a large landing taking place. Item #P13667
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