Operation Biting
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Operation Biting

The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler's Radar

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Operation Biting

The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler's Radar

About this book

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 coast of Nazi-occupied Europe, codenamed Würzburg. British intelligence proposed an assault to capture key components. Incredibly brave agents of the French Resistance risked their lives to probe the German defenses on the Normandy coast. Then a company of Airborne forces were dropped into France in the dead of night amid heavy snow. Launching their attack, the allied soldiers dismantled the German’s radar, and after three nail-biting hours and a fierce battle with Wehrmacht defenders, escaped in the nick of time using landing-craft that carried them back across the stormy seas to Portsmouth.

Operation Biting retells this dramatic operation through a gallery of amazing characters from Winston Churchill, who promoted the raid, to Lord Mountbatten, who commanded Combined Operations, to the brave unsung commandos who fought their way through enemy territory.

A cliffhanger of a story that ratchets the suspense to the last page, Operation Biting sheds new light on an exciting and little-known chapter of the Second World War.

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Information

Publisher
Harper
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9780063341081
eBook ISBN
9780063341111
Topic
History
Subtopic
British History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Introduction
  7. Note on Timing
  8. 1. Reg
  9. 2. Dickie
  10. 3. Boy
  11. 4. RĂ©my
  12. 5. Johnny
  13. 6. Charlie
  14. 7. ‘Party’ Planning
  15. 8. The Jump
  16. 9. Henry
  17. 10. Junior
  18. 11. Cook
  19. 12. The Prizegiving
  20. Acknowledgements
  21. Appendix I: Maj. John Frost’s Orders for Operation Biting February 1942
  22. Appendix II: Order of Battle for C Company 2nd Parachute Battalion 28 February 1942
  23. Appendix III: Maj. Gen. Frederick Browning’s After-action Report on Operation Biting, March 1942
  24. Appendix IV: Extracts from the Report of the Telecommunications Research Establishment on the German Technology Captured at Bruneval
  25. References and a Note on Sources
  26. Bibliography
  27. Index
  28. Photo Section
  29. About the Author
  30. Also by Max Hastings
  31. Copyright
  32. About the Publisher