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Dieppe : Canada's forgotten heroes

215 pages ; 23 cm · "This book is the story of the (mostly) Canadian raid on Dieppe and adjacent beaches on August 19, 1942--considered the greatest disaster in Canadian military history. John Mellor was there as a commando. He interviewed over 200 people and produced this story of the planing and preparations for the raid, a detailed and personal telling of the men in battle, scene by scene and often shot by shot, and the years of suffering and resistance as survivors in prisoner-of-war camps."-- · Originally published under title Forgotten heroes, the Canadians at Dieppe: Toronto: Methuen, 1975

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