Whitaker, Brigadier General Denis DSO and Bar, CM, ED, CD and Whitaker, Shelagh, — DIEPPE TRAGEDY TO TRIUMPH.

Lee Cooper, Barnsley, xix, 372pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, coloured endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, lettered dustwrapper, a re-assessment of the Dieppe raid that saw 3000 Canadians killed, wounded or taken prisoner. The author Denis Whitaker took part in the raid, Operation Jubilee, as an infantry captain. At the subsequent de-briefing he was convinced that security about the raid had not been maintained, that the Germans had advance notice but any such suggestion was slapped down by Mountbatten. As one of the few surviving officers he was awarded a DSO. Later in WW2 he commanded the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry in north west Europe as Lieutenant Colonel and received a bar to his DSO. Retiring in 1952 in the rank if Brigadier General he subsequently returned to Dieppe and London to follow up on his doubts about why there had been so many Canadian casulaties at Dieppe, , slightly cocked, one section of about 60pp appears slightly mis-aligned, dustwrapper: tiny scratch on the D of Dieppe, good in a very good dustwrapper,