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Operation Basalt: The British Raid on Sark and Hitler's Commando Order
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Operation Basalt: The British Raid on Sark and Hitler's Commando Order Hardcover - 2016

by Eric Lee


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German soldiers assigned to guard the tiny Channel Island of Sark described it as a 'little Paradise' and, because it was never bombed by the RAF, the best air-raid shelter in all of Europe. But paradise for them came to a bloody end in October 1942 when a small group of British Commandos raided the island, capturing one German soldier and killing several others. Operation Basalt would have been a footnote in history but for the reaction of Hitler, who believed that British soldiers executed several Germans who had already surrendered and whose hands were bound. Days after the raid, he issued the infamous 'Commando Order', a death sentence for those Allied commandos who fell into German hands.Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews with survivors of the period, Eric Lee has written the definitive account of the raid, putting it into the context of the German occupation of British lands during the war.

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  • Title Operation Basalt: The British Raid on Sark and Hitler's Commando Order
  • Author Eric Lee
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher History Press, Stroud, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
  • Date 2016
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780750964364 / 0750964367
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.9 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Cultural Region: Germany
  • Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945 - Commando operations, World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - English
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.5

About the author

Eric Lee is a London-based author, journalist and political activist. He is author of two books of military history (Saigon to Jerusalem: Conversations with Israel's Vietnam Veterans and Operation Basalt: The British Raid on Sark and Hitler's Commando Order) and several books about the labor movement and the Internet. His next book is Democratic Socialism: The Georgian Experiment, 1918-21. He is also the founding editor of LabourStart, the news and campaigning website of the international trade union movement.
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