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Operation Menace: The Dakar Expedition and the Dudley North Affair

Barry M. Gough

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Continuing on from Arthur Marder's previous book, "From the Dardanelles to Oran: Studies of the Royal Navy in Peace 1915-1940" this next volume investigates the Allied expedition of September that year, with De Gaulle present, which unsuccessfully attempted to break the French at Dakar away from the Vichy Government.

A pet operation of Prime Minister Churchill, the operation was undertaken against all advice, and it turned out to be a fiasco. In the author's words, "Menace exemplified, in its genesis, planning, and execution, all that can go wrong in warfare; an operation fouled up by unforeseen contingencies, the accidents of war, and human error, and against a background of undue political interference, inadequate planning, and half-baked co-operation between Allies."

Using Admiralty and Cabinet papers, as well as private sources of information, Marder weaves a skilled course through all the complex material to produce a masterly case-study of how an operation is mounted and how it can go disastrously wrong. It is a classic, tragicomic illustration of the fog of war.

Language: English

Pages: 289

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Seaforth Publishing

Release: June 30, 2016

ISBN: 1848323905

ISBN 13: 9781848323902

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Operation Menace: The Dakar Expedition and the Dudley North Affair

Operation Menace: The Dakar Expedition and the Dudley North Affair

Operation Menace: The Dakar Expedition and the Dudley North Affair

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