The Greatest Raid av Giles Whittell

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<p>''<b>I loved this book</b>, as I love any<b> good adventure story sublimely told . . . a gloriously exciting high, </b>followed by a crushing realisation of war''s enormous waste'' Gerard deGroot, <i>The Times</i><br><br><b>''Absorbing . . . The extraordinary bravery of the participants shines out from the narrative''</b> Patrick Bishop, <i>Sunday Telegraph</i><br><b>_________________________________<br><br>FROM THE AUTHOR OF <i>BRIDGE OF SPIES</i>: </b><b>A dramatic and colourful new account of the most daring British commando raid of World War Two</b><br><br>In the darkest months of the Second World War, Churchill approved what seemed to many like a suicide mission. Under orders to attack the St Nazaire U-boat base on the Atlantic seaboard, British commandos undertook "the greatest raid of all", turning an old destroyer into a live bomb and using it to ram the gates of a Nazi stronghold. Five Victoria Crosses were awarded -- more than in any similar operation.<br><br>Drawing on of