D-DAY: June 6, 1944. The Climatic Battle of World War II.
Pp. 656(last publisher's advertisement), double title page, 32 plates, full and double page text maps, glossary, endnotes, bibliography, appendix, index; thick med. 8vo; qr. black cloth and red papered boards, spine lettered and ruled in silver; dust wrapper, backstrip a trifle sunned; Simon & Schuster, New York, 1994. First U.S. edition.*Interesting SAS material possibly not recorded elsewhere. Operation Titanic is recorded elsewhere but the involvement of Captain M.R.D. Foot (name spelt correctly on page 174 but incorrectly on page 216), as Brigade Intelligence officer in the 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 two SAS teams, each of four, equipped with a tape recorder to be played after landing (playing 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 #P14436
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