Glad you got back into it. Not because I need the book back, but because it is a great read.
Wasn’t there a movie made off this book?
Yeah.Wasn’t there a movie made off this book?
Someone said earlier that Dieppe was a first draft, and plans were revised and improved, based upon the failures there; I hope they're right.Just finished reading a fact-novel on the situation in 1939 Palestine, not much has changed in 2023. The actors may have changed, the scenario is the same.
Ditto with the novel "Kursk", the war time strategy then in Ukraine is much the same as it is today, right down to the wrestling over the same city and area.
What is absolutely shocking is the casual disregard for life as described in the book "Operation Jubilee". The Canadian soldiers were sent to their demise in the name of political objective. The invasion of Dieppe had zero military value.
Glad to see that there is another interest in Military history here, thank you for your valid comment!Someone said earlier that Dieppe was a first draft, and plans were revised and improved, based upon the failures there; I hope they're right.
I went and visited the beach and the cliffs. It looked like a terrible place to attack by sea.Glad to see that there is another interest in Military history here, thank you for your valid comment!
That was the "escape" clause used by the organizers of that ill-fated raid.
Military strategists have said that such a rehearsal will have groomed the opposing force on what to expect and to make counter arrangements.
Mountbatten & Co mounted that op to convince the Russians to stay the course (Stalin, brushed that away) and to convince the US to agree that Opeation Torch (invasion of N. Africa) was better than a continental landing (which is what the US was in favor of).
There are other alternatives to achieving those aims rather than sending soldiers (from UK's "province", Canada) to a certain death.
There are some incredibly memorable characters....The series has received widespread critical acclaim, with reviewers praising the epic scope, plot complexity and characterizations, and fellow authors such as Glen Cook (The Black Company) and Stephen R. Donaldson (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant) hailing it as a masterwork of the imagination, and comparing Erikson to the likes of Joseph Conrad, Henry James, William Faulkner, and Fyodor Dostoevsky.[7][8][9]
if you are up for it. .....The Malazan Book of the Fallen raises "the bar for fantasy literature", that the world building and the writing are exceptional.[47] Cilli claims the series is written for the "most advanced readers out there.", going on to state that "Even they will have to make two passes through all ten books to fully comprehend the myriad of plotlines, characters and various settings that Erickson presents to us." Reading Erikson's "The Malazan Book of the Fallen" might be "the most challenging literary trial" a reader has ever tried, yet "the payoff is too enormous to ignore and well worth taking on the endeavor. Steven Erikson doesn't spoon feed his readers. He forces you to question and think on a level that very few authors would even dare for fear of finding and perhaps losing an audience."[47]
Any other book recommendations? Or just the two above?It is been pretty interesting reading competitive strategy, interesting to see how many big companies are basically like people, with their own strategies, fears and insecurities, the often contemptuous relationships with parent(companies) etc