The Forgotten Dead The True Story Of Exercise Tiger 1944 The Disastrous Rehearsal For D Day by Ken Small, Mark Rogerson 9781472834560 1472834569

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• ISBN 10:1472834569
• ISBN 13:9781472834560
• Author: Ken Small, Mark Rogerson 

27 April 1944. Exercise Tiger. German E-boats intercept rehearsals for the D-Day landings… On a dark night in 1944, a beautiful stretch of the Devon coast became the scene of desperate horror. Tales began to leak out of night-time explosions and seaborne activity. This was practice for Exercise Tiger, the main rehearsal for the Utah Beach landings…

This fiasco, in which nearly 1,000 soldiers died, was buried by officials until it was almost forgotten. That is, until Ken Small discovered the story, and decided to dedicate the rest of his life to honouring the brave young men who perished in the disastrous exercise. Pulling a Sherman tank from the seabed, Ken created a memorial to those who died and started to share their story, and his, with the world.

This updated edition of a bestselling classic is a gripping tale of wartime disaster and rescue in the words of the soldiers who were there, and of one man’s curiosity that turned into a fight to ensure that they would never be forgotten.

Table of content:

Chapter 1 The forgotten dead
Chapter 2 Exercise tiger
Chapter 3 Attack!
Chapter 4 A slow, cold death
Chapter 5 A question of blame
Chapter 6 Early days
Chapter 7 How to buy a tank
Chapter 8 The recovery begins
Chapter 9 Ashore at last
Chapter 10 The memorial service
Chapter 11 Relatives and friends
Chapter 12 The missing graves
Chapter 13 The next crusade
Afterword
survivors’ stories
The german perspective
A note on the author
The roll of honour

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