The Bruneval Raid– Operation Biting 1942

Osprey Raid #13

by Ken Ford

In the darkest days of World War II, the British planned a daring airborne operation to capture the secret of the new German radar. Lead by Major John Frost, a company of paratroopers dropped into Bruneval on the French coast, and quickly neutralized a small German garrison. Then began a desperate fight for time as the British tried to dismantle the German radar and evacuate back to England, as ever more German units converged on their position. Using artwork, photographs, and detailed maps, this action-packed narrative puts the reader in the planning room and on the battlefield of one of the greatest raids of World War II.

Genres: History, Nonfiction

64 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 9, 2006

Reviews

[John Somers · Rating 4 out of 5]

15/20.

[Steven Peterson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another nice Osprey volume. This is one entry in the "Raid" series. The focus? Operation Biting in 1942. Here, an airborne effort weas designed to discover the nature of German radar advances. Paratroopers landed in France, tried to get radar devices to take bacvk to England. A daring operation--and quite successful as well.

[Matthias Noch · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dieser Band aus der RAID- Serie befasst sich in der für Osprey-Titel typischen, kompakt, aber guten recherchierten Form mit einer britischen Spezialoperation gegen eine deutsche Radarstellung in Frankreich.

In der Kindle-Ausgabe ist die unsinnige/fehlerhafte Einarbeitung der Karten und Illustration sehr störend. Diese sind so - anders als im gedruckten Buch - wenig brauchbar.