Patrick Bishop is the author of two hugely acclaimed bestsellers about the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys, and books including Wings, a history of the RAF, and Air Force Blue, which celebrated 100 years of the RAF and was a Sunday Times bestseller. He spent twenty-five years as a foreign correspondent covering conflicts around the world.
Patrick Bishop's exemplary account of this wartime fiasco is a
catalogue of blunders such as even our national leaders of today
would find impressive... Bishop tells the sorry story with superb
authority and verve
*Sunday Times*
Patrick Bishop's well-researched, crisply written and utterly
absorbing account of the Dieppe Raid tells a story of heroism and
futility that will live for the reader long afterwards. Operation
Jubilee was all the more tragic for having been entirely avoidable,
in ways reasons that Bishop sets out powerfully, unflinchingly and
unanswerably
*Andrew Roberts, author of ‘Churchill: Walking with Destiny’*
Bishop's instinctive grasp of human nature and forensic analysis of
the surviving evidence combine to pinpoint exactly why the
hare-brained mission was launched and who was to blame... The
hundred or so pages covering the raid itself are a masterclass of
heart-stopping historical narrative as we accompany the doomed
soldiers on their hopeless mission... [This is a] gripping,
beautifully written account
*Daily Telegraph*
Bishop's account of the operation is the best I've read. He
understands war, he understands battle, and he understands men
*Spectator*
Riveting and powerfully written. Patrick Bishop has turned this
tragic cautionary tale into a fascinating, shrewd and timely
reflection on leadership in a time of crisis, and what can happen
to personal ambition in the fevered atmosphere of war
*Henry Hemming, author of 'Our Man in New York'*
Operation Jubilee is written with verve and knowledge, and with the
author's trademark style of integrating eyewitness accounts with
insight into the human condition in battle. It draws upon new
evidence and provides a new perspective on the French civilians.
Recommended reading
*Tim Cook, author of 'The Fight for History'*
Patrick Bishop's account of the preparation, the battle itself, and
its aftermath is forensic, detailed, yet highly readable and
written with his great understanding of war. I would be surprised
if this book did not become the authoritative history of the
disaster that was the Dieppe raid
*General Sir Mike Jackson*
[This] gripping new book sets the record straight and honours the
6,000 brave men sent into the jaws of death
*Daily Express*
A miniature masterpiece of historical narrative
*Robert Fox*
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