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From Dunkirk to D-Day
A Commando's War
Jeff Steel
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From Dunkirk to D-Day
A Commando's War
Jeff Steel
About This Book
Bill Adlam's hair-raising escape from Dunkirk, his dramaticcommando raids and his storming the D-Day beaches reads likefiction. But it all happened. Bill escaped the Dunkirk disaster via a bayonet charge intoNazi machine guns. He was presented with the Military Medal'for gallantry under fire' by King George VI. Later, Bill volunteered forcommandos: he thrived on adrenaline. Number 4 Commando took him to a surgical strike in thenorth of Norway. The stated objective: to destroy oil installations.It was a feint. Ian Fleming of the Secret Intelligence Service hadmasterminded the raid. Its objective: to help break the Enigma Code. Number 4 Commando then sent him on a raid to Dieppe in August 1942 tospike naval guns to enable a landing by Canadian forces. Bill'scommanding officer was Lord Lovat: cousin to Ian Fleming and(allegedly) template for the fictional James Bond. Bill's prowess as a commando saw him headhunted to a top secretlocation in the wilds of Scotland. Here he trained others inthe dark arts of 'butcher and bolt'. On the morning o 6 June 1944, D-Day, Bill passed over the sands of Normandyin minutes. The next two months saw him up against Hitler'selite army and Waffen SS divisions. The reader will ask the same question that Bill asked: howwould he ever come out alive?
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Book Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Bill Goes to the Flicks
- Chapter 2 âThis Country is at War with Germanyâ
- Chapter 3 Bill Wins his Military Medal
- Chapter 4 The Road to Ledringhem
- Chapter 5 The Road to Dunkirk
- Chapter 6 The Road to Buckingham Palace
- Chapter 7 With the Commandos at Weymouth
- Chapter 8 Of Cromwell and Cavalry
- Chapter 9 The Road to the Isles
- Chapter 10 Lofoten, Here We Come! Operation Claymore
- Chapter 11 Bill Sets Foot on Enemy Territory
- Chapter 12 Billâs Raid is Reported to the FĂźhrer
- Chapter 13 What Adolf Hitler and Bill Adlam Did Not Know
- Chapter 14 Operation Pilgrim â Bill Goes to Africa
- Chapter 15 Under Starters Orders
- Chapter 16 Dieppe â Operation Cauldron
- Plates
- Chapter 17 Adolf Hitlerâs View of the Dieppe Raid
- Chapter 18 Apotheosis and Beyond!
- Chapter 19 The Road to Achnacarry
- Chapter 20 The Dark Mile, the Death Slide and the Opposed Landing
- Chapter 21 The Achnacarry High Period
- Chapter 22 The Road to D-Day
- Chapter 23 Embarkation for D-Day
- Chapter 24 A Trip across the Channel â Operation Neptune
- Chapter 25 Adolf Hitler Responds to the Normandy Invasion
- Chapter 26 D Day: Bill Adlam Wades Ashore
- Chapter 27 The Road to Bayeux
- Chapter 28 Bayeux
- Chapter 29 The Road to Tilly â Operation Perch
- Chapter 30 The Road to Caen â Operations Bluecoat and Charnwood
- Chapter 31 The Road to La Mailleraye and Endgame
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
- Select Bibliography
- About the Authors
- Backcover