
The Tiger's Revenge
The story of a largely unknown and most daring raid of World War Two
- 186 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Since the end of the Second World War, this audacious operation has remained little known amongst the public or military in the United Kingdom. It was an incredible endeavour executed by British and Australian service personnel. The deepest surface waterborne penetration behind enemy occupied lines undertaken by special forces of WW2. This hand-picked band of men would achieve what some thought to be impossible, a major strike at the very heart of the Japanese in their newly acquired Empire in South East Asia. This story ranks and deserves the same acknowledgment as exploits such as the Dambusters or Cockleshell Heroes. In the words of British Generals and US Admirals and Commanders, it achieved what everyone thought was impossible, without loss and with the minimum expenditure of resources. A terrible twist in the tail is that by not using the success of the mission as a propaganda victory as had been intended by Jaywick's commanders, a terrible price was paid by local Singaporeans who were scapegoated by the Japanese Secret Police. This is perhaps the reason thatOperation Jaywick was never hailed with the success it truly deserved.The highly effective delivery of Operation Jaywick gave a green light to an even more ambitious endeavour from which no British or Australian personnel would survive, many being executed, beheaded by their Japanese captors. The Tiger's Revenge is the story told by the son of a Special Operations Executivecrew member who was the only British survivor of Operation Jaywick.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Map
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Chapter One: Singapore, Victim of Delusion
- Chapter Two: Beginning of the End
- Chapter Three: The Sumatran Escape Route
- Chapter Four: Land at Last
- Chapter Five: Striking Back from Australia
- Chapter Six: Fine Tuning
- Chapter Seven: Jaywick Begins
- Chapter Eight: Into the Lyon’s Den
- Chapter Nine: Survive and Attack
- Chapter Ten: Rendezvous Pompong
- Chapter Eleven: Running the Gauntlet
- Chapter Twelve: Scapegoat スケープゴート
- Chapter Thirteen: Aftermath – from Miner to Major
- Bibliography
- Copyright