Operation Jedburgh
D-Day and America's First Shadow War
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- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
24 April 2007
Summary
A thrilling account of one of the most important covert operations of World War II.
In 1943, less than a year before D-Day, nearly three hundred American, British, and French soldiers—shadow warriors—parachuted deep behind enemy lines in France as part of the covert Operation Jedburgh. Working with the beleaguered French Resistance, the “Jeds” launched a stunningly effective guerrilla campaign against the Germans in preparation for the Normandy invasion.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143112020 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143112023 |
| Author: | Colin Beavan |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | The Penguin Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 24 April 2007 |
| Weight: | 428g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 141mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
They were cloaked in shadow, mystery, and a touch of glamour, the Jedburghs, the most intensely secret warriors of World War II. (Joseph E. Persico, author of Nuremberg)
An exciting story of the lesser known side of D-Day … vividly told. (Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945)
About The Author
Colin Beavan
Colin Beavan is the author of Fingerprints- The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case That Launched Forensic Science. He has written for Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Men’s Journal, and Wired.
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