Operation Basalt (eBook)

The British Raid on Sark and Hitler's Commando Order

Eric Lee (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
224 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-0-7509-6872-0 (ISBN)

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German soldiers assigned to guard the tiny Channel Island of Sark described it as a 'little Paradise' and, because it was never bombed by the RAF, the best air-raid shelter in all of Europe. But paradise for them came to a bloody end in October 1942 when a small group of British Commandos raided the island, capturing one German soldier and killing several others.
Operation Basalt would have been a footnote in history but for the reaction of Hitler, who believed that British soldiers executed several Germans who had already surrendered and whose hands were bound. Days after the raid, he issued the infamous 'Commando Order', a death sentence for those Allied commandos who fell into German hands.
Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews with survivors of the period, Eric Lee has written the definitive account of the raid, putting it into the context of the German occupation of British lands during the war.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.3.2016
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: allied commandos • british commandos • Channel Islands • German occupation • german soldiers • German soldiers, Germany, Germans, Britain, Sark, Channel Islands, Channel Island, RAF, British Commandos, Hitler, Commando Order, Allies, raid, occupation, hitler's commando order • hitlers commando order • October 1942 • raid on sark • sark raid • Second World War • The british raid on sark & hitler’s commando order • The british raid on sark and hitler’s commando order • The british raid on sark and hitler’s commando order, The british raid on sark & hitler’s commando order, hitlers commando order, channel islands, October 1942, british commandos, german soldiers, allied commandos, sark raid, raid on sark, german occupation, ww2, wwii, world war 2, world war ii, • World War 2 • World War II • |world war two • World War Two • world war two, second world war • ww2 • WWII
• ISBN-10: 0-7509-6872-9 / 0750968729
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7509-6872-0 / 9780750968720