Operation Biting
In February 1942, RAF intelligence was baffled by a newly identified radar network on the coast of Nazi-occupied Europe, codenamed Würzburg. British intelligence proposed an assault to capture key components. Incredibly brave agents of the French Resistance risked their lives to probe the German defenses on the Normandy coast. Then a company of Airborne forces were dropped into France in the dead of night amid heavy snow. Launching their attack, the allied soldiers dismantled the German’s radar, and after three nail-biting hours and a fierce battle with Wehrmacht defenders, escaped in the nick of time using landing-craft that carried them back across the stormy seas to Portsmouth. This book retells this dramatic operation through a gallery of amazing characters from Winston Churchill to Lord Mountbatten, to the brave unsung commandos who fought their way through enemy territory.
  • Publisher: Harper US
  • Publication date: 08/10/2024
  • ISBN: 9780063341081
  • Page extent: 384
  • Format: Hardback
  • Dimensions: 229 mm x 153 mm
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