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Green Beach - Couverture souple

Leasor, James

 
9781908291875: Green Beach
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1908291877 ISBN 13 : 9781908291875
Editeur : Chiselbury, 2022

Synopsis

‘Of all the war stories I have read, truth or fiction, this is the best’ – Ottawa Journal

'Green Beach has blown the lid off one of the Second World War's best-kept secrets' - Daily Express

'If I had been aware of the orders given to the escort to shoot him rather than let him be captured, I would have cancelled them immediately' - Lord Mountbatten

'Green Beach is a vivid, moving and at times nerve-racking reconstruction of an act of outstanding but horrific heroism' - Sunday Express

‘…a cracking good story’ – Globe & Mail

In August 1942, radar expert Jack Nissenthall volunteered for one of the most dangerous missions of the Second World War. Landing with Canadian troops during the Dieppe Raid, he was tasked with penetrating a German radar station overlooking Green Beach and gathering intelligence vital to the Allied war effort.

Nissenthall knew Britain's most closely guarded radar secrets. To prevent them falling into enemy hands, he was assigned a bodyguard of sharpshooters with extraordinary orders: protect him at all costs, but if capture became inevitable, kill him.

Based on first-hand accounts and meticulous research, Green Beach tells the remarkable true story of Nissenthall and the men who fought beside him through nine desperate hours under relentless enemy fire. First published to widespread acclaim, James Leasor's gripping account remains the definitive story of one of the Second World War's most extraordinary secret missions.

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À propos de l'auteur

James Leasor was one of the bestselling British authors of the second half of the 20th Century. He wrote over 50 books including a rich variety of thrillers, historical novels and biographies.His works included the critically acclaimed The Red Fort, the story of the Indian Mutiny of 1957, The Marine from Mandalay, Boarding Party (made into the film The Sea Wolves starring Gregory Peck, David Niven and Roger Moore), The Plague and the Fire, and The One that Got Away (made into a film starring Hardy Kruger). He also wrote Passport to Oblivion (which sold over 4 million copies around the World and was filmed as Where the Spies Are, starring David Niven), the first of nine novels featuring Dr Jason Love, a Cord car owning Somerset GP called to aid Her Majesty's Secret Service in foreign countries, and another bestselling series about the Far Eastern merchant Robert Gunn in the 19th century. There were also sagas set in Africa and Asia, written under the pseudonym Andrew MacAllan, and tales narrated by an unnamed vintage car dealer in Belgravia, who drives a Jaguar SS100.

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Éditeur
Chiselbury
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1908291877
ISBN 13 
9781908291875
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
306
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