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Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitlers Radar

English

By (author): Max Hastings

THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER

'Reads like a thriller I couldn't put Max Hastings's new book down' DAILY MAIL

'Hastings is a master of drama, a writer intimately familiar with the mind of the soldier' THE TIMES

Operation Biting was one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and probably the most successful. In February 1942 RAF intelligence was baffled by a newly-identified radar network on the coast of Nazi-occupied Europe, codenamed Würzburg. The brilliant scientist Dr RV Jones proposed an assault to capture key components. The nearest accessible enemy set stood upon a steep cliff at Bruneval in Normandy. Winston Churchill enthused, as did Lord Louis Mountbatten, chief of Combined Operations. A company of the newly-formed Airborne Forces was committed to the operation, which took place on the night of 27/28 February. Amid heavy snow 120 men landed, some of whom were misdropped almost two miles from their objective. They nonetheless launched the assault, dismantled the German radar, and after three nail-biting hours in France and a fierce battle with Wehrmacht defenders, escaped in the nick of time by landing-craft across stormy seas to Portsmouth.

Max Hastings recounts this cliffhanging tale in a wealth of previously unchronicled detail. He portrays its remarkable personalities: the boffin RV Jones; the peacock Mountbatten; the troubled husband of Daphne Du Maurier, Gen. Boy Browning, who commanded the Airborne Division; Colonel Remy, the French secret agent whose men reconnoitered Bruneval at mortal risk; Major John Frost, who led the paras into action; Charlie Cox, the little RAF technician who stripped the Würzburg and became an unexpected hero; Wing-Commander Charles Pickard, a legendary bomber pilot who led the drop squadron. Seldom have so many fascinating personalities been brought together to fulfil a mission that became a front-page triumph in a season of British defeats.

Recounted in Hastings familiar best-selling blend of top-down and bottom-up action detail, Operation Biting tells a story that has become almost forgotten yet deserves to rank among the epic tales of courage and daring that took place in the greatest conflict in history.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 660g
  • Dimensions: 159 x 240mm
  • Publication Date: 23 May 2024
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780008642167

About Max Hastings

Max Hastings is the author of twenty-six books most about conflict and between 1986 and 2002 served as editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph then editor of the Evening Standard. He has won many prizes both for journalism and his books of which the most recent are All Hell Let Loose Catastrophe and The Secret War best-sellers translated around the world. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature an Honorary Fellow of Kings College London and was knighted in 2002. He has two grown-up children Charlotte and Harry and lives with his wife Penny in West Berkshire where they garden enthusiastically.

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