Kill Rommel!: Operation Flipper 1941
5/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
In November 1941, a small party of British Commandos landed by submarine in Libya, tasked with the assassination of General Erwin Rommel, commander of the German forces in North Africa, who was believed to be staying in a villa near the coast.
Three men – Lt-Col Geoffrey Keyes, Capt Robin Campbell and Sgt Jack Terry – stormed the villa, but the German general was nowhere to be found. In the confused fighting Keyes was killed and Campbell wounded; only two raiders would escape, one of whom was Terry.
The raid made headlines round the free world, and Keyes was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross. Yet in truth the raid had been a glorious failure, a mission bedevilled by bad planning and poor intelligence. Even so, crucial lessons were learned, particularly by the Special Air Service – who carried out their first mission on the same night as the raid on Rommel's HQ.
Gavin Mortimer
Gavin Mortimer is a writer, historian and television consultant whose groundbreaking book Stirling's Men remains the definitive history of the wartime SAS. Drawing on interviews with more than 60 veterans, most of whom had never spoken publicly, the book was the first comprehensive account of the SAS Brigade. He has also written histories of the SBS, Merrill's Marauders and the LRDG, again drawing heavily on veteran interviews. He has published a variety of titles with Osprey including The Long Range Desert Group in World War II and The SAS in World War II.
Read more from Gavin Mortimer
Merrill's Marauders: The Untold Story of Unit Galahad and the Toughest Special Forces Mission of World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The SAS in Occupied France: 2 SAS Operations, June to October 1944 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe First Eagles: The Fearless American Aces Who Flew with the RAF in World War I Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The SAS in Occupied France: 1 SAS Operations, June to October 1944 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsZ Special Unit: The Elite Allied World War II Guerrilla Force Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA History of Football in 100 Objects Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe SBS in World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A History of Cricket in 100 Objects Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The SAS in World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to Kill Rommel!
Titles in the series (3)
Decatur’s Bold and Daring Act: The Philadelphia in Tripoli 1804 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Avenging Angel: John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry 1859 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Storm-333: KGB and Spetsnaz seize Kabul, Soviet-Afghan War 1979 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related ebooks
The Battles of El Alamein: The End of the Beginning Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The SBS in World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Armoured Warfare from the Riviera to the Rhine, 1944–1945 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings5th Infantry Brigade in the Falklands Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Allied Armies in Sicily and Italy 1943–1945 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Stalin and Molotov Lines: Soviet Western Defences 1928–41 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUnited States Infantry Weapons of the Second World War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsConstant Vigilance: The RAF Regiment in the Burma Campaign Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beachhead Assault: The Combat History of the Royal Naval Commandos in World War II Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Armoured Warfare in the First World War 1916-18 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Montgomery's Rhine River Crossing: Operation Plunder Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsForgotten Tanks and Guns of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/53 Para Mount Longdon: The Bloodiest Battle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Eyewitness Korea: The Experience of British and American Soldiers in the Korean War, 1950–1953 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5German Reconnaissance and Support Vehicles, 1939–1945 Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5S.A.S. in Tuscany, 1943–1945 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEastern Front: Encirclement and Escape by German Forces Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Arracourt 1944: Triumph of American Armor Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVanguard Of Valor : Small Unit Actions In Afghanistan Vol. I [Illustrated Edition] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tank Warfare: A History of Tanks in Battle Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe BEF in 1917: Arras, Vimy, Messines, Passchendaele and Cambrai Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings6th SS Mountain Division Nord at War, 1941–1945 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Ordinary Heroes: Untold Stories from the Falklands Campaign Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Italian Colonial Troops 1882–1960 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings1st Airborne: Market Garden 1944 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Allied Armour, 1939–1945: British and American Tanks at War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Desert Rats: The 7th Armoured Division in World War II Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBattle Of Gazala (May- June 1942) [Illustrated Edition] Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSpecial Forces Vehicles: 1940 to the Present Day Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The British at First and Second Ypres Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Wars & Military For You
The Art of War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Daily Creativity Journal Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Mein Kampf: The Original, Accurate, and Complete English Translation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The God Delusion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Unit 731: Testimony Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Doctors From Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Art of War: The Definitive Interpretation of Sun Tzu's Classic Book of Strategy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unacknowledged: An Expose of the World's Greatest Secret Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wager Disaster: Mayem, Mutiny and Murder in the South Seas Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5"The Good War": An Oral History of World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Making of the Atomic Bomb Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Kingdom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Kill Rommel!
1 rating0 reviews