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Green BeachJames Leasor

Green Beach

James Leasor
1975287 pages
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In 1942 radar expert Jack Nissenthall volunteered for a suicidal mission to join a combat team who were making a surprise landing at Dieppe in occupied France. His assignment was to penetrate a German radar station on a cliff above "Green Beach". Because Nissenthall knew the secrets of British and US radar technology, he was awarded a personal bodyguard of sharpshooters. Their orders were to protect him, but in the event of possible capture lo kill him. .His choice was to succeed or die. The story of what happened to him and his bodyguards in nine hours under fire is one of World War II's…

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5 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2001
    House of Stratus · 286 pages · 9780755100446
  • Paperback · English · 1986
    Eagle Publishing Corporation. · 256 pages · 9780931933219
  • Other · English · 1982
    Corgi · 288 pages · 9780552119221
  • Other · English · 1975
    Morrow · 292 pages · 9780688002954
  • Other · English · 1975
    Heinemann · 249 pages · 9780434410248
Dieppe Raid, 1942Fiction, general