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Churchill's Last Wartime Secret

Autor Adrian Searle
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 ian 2024
Its been a State secret for more than seventy years. The official line in the UK has always been that it never happened but this new work challenges the assertion that no German force set foot on British soil during the Second World War (the Channel Islands excepted), on active military service.

Churchill's Last Wartime Secret reveals the remarkable story of a mid-war seaborne enemy raid on an Isle of Wight radar station. It describes the purpose and scope of the attack, the composition of the raiding German force and how it was immediately, and understandably, hushed-up by Winston Churchill's wartime administration, in order to safeguard public morale.

Circumventing the almost complete lack of official British archival documentation, the author relies on compelling and previously undisclosed first-hand evidence from Germany to underpin the books narrative and claims; thus distinguishing it from other tales of rumored seaborne enemy assaults on British soil during the 1939-45 conflict.

After examining the outcome and repercussions of this astonishing incident, what emerges is an event of major symbolic significance in the annals of wartime history.
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ISBN-13: 9781399077705
ISBN-10: 1399077708
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: 16 Illustrations, unspecified
Dimensiuni: 234 x 156 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Pen & Sword Books

Notă biografică

Adrian Searle is a journalist and author who writes on a range of historical topics, unearthing previously hidden aspects of history in a search for the truth. Born and bred on the Isle of Wight, he returned there in 1984 to edit a local newspaper and has worked in a freelance capacity since 1989. Previous titles for Pen and Sword were The Quintinshill Conspiracy, a collaboration with Jack Richards (2013) examining Britain's worst rail disaster, and Churchill's Last Wartime Secret (2016), revealing a hushed-up German raid on an Isle of Wight.