Unauthorized action : Mountbatten and the Dieppe Raid / Brian Loring Villa
1989, First Edition. Toronto ; New York : Oxford University Press. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, somewhat edge-bumped and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #472962
ISBN: 0195406796
Physical description; xiii, 314 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. American Historical Association Paul Birdsall Prize in European Military and Strategic History, 1990. Contents; The bare facts of a historical tragedy -- Mountbatten and myth : how the history of Dieppe came to be written -- The crisis at the top : Churchill's woes -- Three powers in search of a strategy -- General Sir Alan Brooke and the prelude to Dieppe -- The Royal Navy on the eve of Dieppe -- The RAF on the eve of Dieppe -- Mountbatten the strategist -- Mountbatten on the eve of Dieppe -- and after -- How Canada became involved -- An overview -- Appendix I. Why governments do what they should not do -- Appendix II. Methodology. Subjects; Mountbatten of Burma, Louis Mountbatten Earl 1900-1979. 1939-1945. Dieppe Raid, 1942. World War, 1939-1945 Canada. Decision making ; Case studies.
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