Название: Operation Menace : The Dakar Expedition and the Dudley North Affair
Автор: Arthur J. Marder
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1591147255
Год: 2016
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 335
Размер: 7,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

Continuing on from Arthur Marder's previous book,From the Dardanelles to Oran: Studies of the Royal Navy in Peace 1915-1940 this next volume investigates the Allied expedition of September that year, with De Gaulle present, which unsuccessfully attempted to break the French at Dakar away from the Vichy Government.
A pet operation of Prime Minister Churchill, the operation was undertaken against all advice, and it turned out to be a fiasco. In the author's words, "Menace exemplified, in its genesis, planning, and execution, all that can go wrong in warfare; an operation fouled up by unforeseen contingencies, the accidents of war, and human error, and against a background of undue political interference, inadequate planning, and half-baked co-operation between Allies."