The Greatest Raid: St. Nazaire, 1942

by Giles Whittell

Book Overview

The definitive account of one of the most desperately heroic missions launched during World War Two.

In March 1942, at perhaps the darkest moment of World War Two for the Allies, Britain launched a nearly suicidal raid on the Nazi-occupied French port of St. Nazaire, which the German Navy was using as a dry dock for ship repairs (the Tirpitz, the sister ship of the Bismarck, was scheduled for repairs there). Destroying it...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197627900
• ISBN13: 9780197627907
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 8.9"