Dress Rehearsal
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
When the Allied forces stormed the beaches of Dieppe on August 19, 1942, in what would become one of the most controversial raids of the Second World War, Quentin Reynolds was there — and Dress Rehearsal stands as his gripping, firsthand chronicle of that fateful day. As a celebrated American war correspondent, Reynolds presents a searing eyewitness account of the Dieppe Raid, the audacious amphibious assault that served as the first large-scale Allied landing on the European theatre of war, exposing both the heroism of the men who fought and the catastrophic cost of the mission in blood and strategic miscalculation. Beyond the immediacy of the battlefield, Dress Rehearsal argues with quiet authority that Dieppe was never meant to be a victory — it was a brutal education, a live-fire lesson that would ultimately inform the planning of D-Day two years later. Reynolds writes with the urgency of a man who witnessed history unfolding in real time, his prose stripped of sentimentality yet charged with a deep respect for the soldiers who paid the ultimate price. Precise, vivid, and morally unflinching, this work raises a question that lingers long after the final page: how many lives does it cost to learn how to win a war?
Author: Quentin Reynolds
Format: Hardback
Genre: WW2
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
When the Allied forces stormed the beaches of Dieppe on August 19, 1942, in what would become one of the most controversial raids of the Second World War, Quentin Reynolds was there — and Dress Rehearsal stands as his gripping, firsthand chronicle of that fateful day. As a celebrated American war correspondent, Reynolds presents a searing eyewitness account of the Dieppe Raid, the audacious amphibious assault that served as the first large-scale Allied landing on the European theatre of war, exposing both the heroism of the men who fought and the catastrophic cost of the mission in blood and strategic miscalculation. Beyond the immediacy of the battlefield, Dress Rehearsal argues with quiet authority that Dieppe was never meant to be a victory — it was a brutal education, a live-fire lesson that would ultimately inform the planning of D-Day two years later. Reynolds writes with the urgency of a man who witnessed history unfolding in real time, his prose stripped of sentimentality yet charged with a deep respect for the soldiers who paid the ultimate price. Precise, vivid, and morally unflinching, this work raises a question that lingers long after the final page: how many lives does it cost to learn how to win a war?