Operation Biting
the 1942 parachute assault to capture hitler's radar
$74.00
- Hardcover
384 pages
- Release Date
8 October 2024
Summary
Operation Biting: The Daring WWII Raid That Snatched German Secrets
In this enthralling history, internationally bestselling author Max Hastings recounts the odds-defying Operation Biting, a 1942 parachute commando raid on Northern France to steal vital components of German intelligence–one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and one of the most successful.
In February 1942, RAF intelligence was baffled by a newly identified radar network on the coa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780063341081 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0063341085 |
| Author: | Max Hastings |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Imprint: | Collins |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 8 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 249mm x 163mm x 33mm |
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About The Author
Max Hastings
Max Hastings is the author of twenty-eight books, most about conflict, and between 1986 and 2002 served as editor in chief of the Daily Telegraph, then as editor of the Evening Standard. He has won many prizes, for both his journalism and his books, the most recent of which are the bestsellers Vietnam, The Secret War, Catastrophe, and All Hell Let Loose. Knighted in 2002, Hastings is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of King’s College London, and a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He has two grown children, Charlotte and Harry, and lives with his wife, Penny, in West Berkshire, where they garden enthusiastically.
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