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" Kill Rommel! : "
Gavin Mortimer ; [iilustrators] Peter Dennis, Johnny Shumate, Alan Gilliland.
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BL
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754290
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b574252
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Gavin Mortimer ; [iilustrators] Peter Dennis, Johnny Shumate, Alan Gilliland.
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Kill Rommel! : : Operation Flipper 1941\ Gavin Mortimer ; [iilustrators] Peter Dennis, Johnny Shumate, Alan Gilliland.
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Oxford : Osprey Publishing, 2014
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Raid, 43
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80 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour) ; 25 cm
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1472801091
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: 9781472801098
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Introduction/ Origins/ Initial Strategy/ The Plan/ The Raid/ Analysis/ Conclusion/ Further Reading
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British Commandos attempted to assassinate Rommel, the Desert Fox, in a daring special forces raid in North Africa during World War II. On the night of 13 November 1941 two British submarines surfaced off the Libyan coast 250 miles behind German lines. It was dark and stormy, and the 28 commandos on board Torbay had great difficulty climbing into their rubber dinghies and paddling towards the shore. Disaster struck the second submarine, Talisman, when a giant wave swept eleven commandos waiting on deck overboard. At dawn on the morning of 13 November the depleted raiding party was finally ashore, cold, wet and exhausted, but determined nonetheless to press on with their audacious mission - the assassination of General Erwin Rommel, commander of the German forces in North Africa.--Amazon website.
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Operation Flipper, 1941.
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Rommel, Erwin, -- 1891-1944 -- Assassination attempt, 1941.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Commando operations -- Great Britain.
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D794.5G385 2014
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Alan Gilliland
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Gavin Mortimer
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Johnny Shumate
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Peter Dennis
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