The Commandos at Dieppe: Rehearsal for D-Day: Operation Cauldron, No. 4 Commando Attack on the Hess Battery August 19th, 1942

by Fowler, Will

• ISBN13: 9780007111268
• ISBN10: 0007111266
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: TRAFALGAR SQUARE

Summary

History's overriding view of the Dieppe raid in 1942 is that of a catastrophic disaster, yet what is often overlooked is No 4 Commando's successful assault on the coastal battery, code-named HESS, to disable the heavy German guns. Operation Cauldron was a victory, a triumph of planning, training, leadership and courage. First-hand accounts from the veterans of No 4 Commando dramatically describe the raid from the landing at dawn to the final withdrawal. Among them were US Rangers, the first US soldiers to go into action in Europe and the first Free French Commandos to return to their homeland in the Second World War. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 9
Introduction	p. 15
1942	p. 19
Planning	p. 51
Training	p. 69
Departure	p. 92
Hostile Shores	p. 107
Landing	p. 129
Attack	p. 156
Withdrawal	p. 180
Homecoming	p. 199
Aftermath	p. 219
Appendices
No 4 Commando after Cauldron	p. 239
No 4 Commando order of battle at Cauldron	p. 241
Regiments and Corps represented in Operation Cauldron	p. 243
Bibliography	p. 247
Index	p. 251
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