Churchill's Last Wartime Secret

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14.99
book_author_name: 
Adrian Searle
book_type: 
Paperback
publisher: 
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
published_date: 
02/11/2023
isbn: 
9781399077705
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Books > History > Military history > Second World War
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Adrian Searle|Paperback|Pen & Sword Books Ltd|02/11/2023
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9781399077705
Book Description: 
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.Churchills 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 Churchills 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 rumoured 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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