Listen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.comID: 242286Title: Raiders: World War Two True StoriesAuthor: Ross KempNarrator: Mark MeadowsFormat: UnabridgedLength: 07:47:16Language: EnglishRelease date: 10-25-12Publisher: Penguin Books LTDGenres: History, MilitarySummary:Six raids that changed the course of history.Operation Judgement: one of the most spectacular efforts of World War Two, where obsolete British biplanes attacked the Italian fleet in Taranto.Operation Archery: the first true combined operation carried out by all three British forces. THis successful raid persuaded Hitler that the Allies were planning a full scale invasion.Operation Biting: a cross-Channel raid into France that was the first major attack by the British Airborne Division and its first battle honour.Operation Gunnerside: a dramatic demolition assault on Hitler's atomic bomb plant in Norway.Operation Chariot: 'the greatest raid of all': the British amphibious attack on the Normandie dry dock at St Nazaire in German-occupied France.Operation Deadstick: the story of the first Allies into the fray on D-Day, tasked with seizing and holding two bridges to prevent an armoured German counter-attack.Contact: [email protected]

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