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With its brand "you is there" style, Symbol Zuehlke's 10th Canadian Challenge Series volume explains to the story of the 1942 Dieppe raid. Nicknamed "The Poor Man's Monte Carlo", Dieppe possessed no tactical importance, but with the Soviet Union tossed on the ropes by German invasion and America having just got into the battle, Britain was under extreme pressure to launch a significant cross-Channel assault against France. Since 1939, Canadian soldiers possessed massed in Britain and trained for the inescapable day of the mass invasion of Europe that could finally take place in 1944. However the Canadian consumer and many politicians were impatient to see Canadian troops fight earlier.The first major rehearsal turned out such a shambles the raid was pressed back to the end of July and then be cancelled by bad weather. Later, in a conclusion still shrouded in controversy, the operation was reborn. Dieppe however didn't go smoothly. Attracting on uncommon archival documents and personal interviews, Symbol Zuehlke examines the way the raid came to be and why it travelled so tragically wrong. In the end, Tragedy at Dieppe honors the bravery and sacrifice of those who fought and died that fateful day on the shorelines of Dieppe.
