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Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler's Radar
By Max Hastings
Hardcover
$35.00
By Max Hastings
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Immensely compelling, with thriller-like tension, this is the riveting true story of a parachute commando operation in World War II that had massive implications on the war then, and the world now.
In this enthralling history, internationally bestselling author Max Hastings recounts the odds-defying Operation Biting, a 1942 parachute commando raid on Northern France to steal vital components of German intelligence—one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and one of 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. British intelligence proposed an ass...
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