TRAGEDY AT DIEPPE. Operation Jubilee, August 19, 1942

Vancouver:Douglas & McIntyre. (2012). 1st edition. 437pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket.  A very good, clean copy. The binding is bumped at bottom spine edge, with resulting ripple across spine strip, and is lighlty worn along edges. Internally clean, free of previous owners mark or signatures but with paper age-toned. The dust jacket is lightly worn along edges, but still in very good condition.   *"Should the Canadian-led Dieppe raid have happened? That question has been debated endlessly since the attack was launched in 1942. Its planners could never even agree on its purpose. Was it to satisfy the Soviet Union's demand for a second front to ease its plight in the East?  Was it to meet American pressure for an immediate major cross-Channel attack?  Was it a practice run for such an attack in 1943?  Or was it purely an exercise masterminded by Combined Operations Chief Lord Louis Montbatten to raid "for raiding's sake"?"...dj