Tragedy at Dieppe
Operation Jubilee, August 19, 1942
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John Wray
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Mark Zuehlke
With its trademark "you are there" style, Mark Zuehlke's 10th Canadian Battle Series volume tells the story of the 1942 Dieppe raid. Nicknamed "The Poor Man's Monte Carlo", Dieppe had no strategic importance, but with the Soviet Union thrown on the ropes by German invasion and America having just entered the war, Britain was under intense pressure to launch a major cross-Channel attack against France.
Since 1939, Canadian troops had massed in Britain and trained for the inevitable day of the mass invasion of Europe that would finally occur in 1944. But the Canadian public and many politicians were impatient to see Canadian soldiers fight sooner.The first major rehearsal proved such a shambles the raid was pushed back to the end of July only to be cancelled by poor weather. Later, in a decision still shrouded in controversy, the operation was reborn. Dieppe however did not go smoothly. Drawing on rare archival documents and personal interviews, Mark Zuehlke examines how the raid came to be and why it went so tragically wrong. Ultimately, Tragedy at Dieppe honors the bravery and sacrifice of those who fought and died that fateful day on the beaches of Dieppe.
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Mark Zuehlke has painstakingly detailed the Canadian army’s involvement in World War II in his Canadian Battle series. Tragedy at Dieppe, the 10th book in the series is a chronicle of the raid on Dieppe in which Canada suffered greater losses than any other battle. Zuehlke was able to scour countless firsthand records that John Wray brings to life with his impassioned and journalistic performance. The writing truly gives an insider's perspective and the performance puts the listener right into the tragic events. Anyone interested in the history of World War II and one of its often overlooked and disastrous confrontations will find this audiobook informative and absorbing.
The narrator reads well and clearly but has no idea of the correct Canadian terms. Canadian officers are left-tenants not loo-tenants. It is zed not zee and proper pronunciation of French is essential.
However, overall, this is well written and well read.
good story, slightly spoiled by mispronunciations
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It continues to be baffling to me how these audiobook publishers select their narrators. Most books about World War II attract the finest of narrators; except when they don't.
If this were not the only audiobook about Dieppe available anywhere, I most certainly would have sent it back upon the strengths of the narrator's pronunciations of French place names. Truly, I believe any high school senior's best efforts to pronounce French words after the typical two years of indifferent French classes would have been far, far superior to this narrator's.
It took almost half the book to understand what he was trying to say when I heard "Arcla BAH tie" . . . after a few goes I began to think that this might refer to "Arc-la-battaille," but I still can't be sure.
Still, *any* words that are not demonstrably English are a struggle for this narrator. "Ad hoc" becomes "Odd hock." "Quay" becomes . . . (I kid you not) "Kway." "Gunwales," which is usually pronounced "Gunnels" to anyone remotely familiar with ANY nautical terminology, as I would expect a narrator of a book about a cross-Channel invasion to be, becomes in this narrator's efforts as "Gun whales." (I *kid**you**not*.) You could NOT make this stuff up.
As the book continues, the narrator continues to massacre EVERY foreign or remotely foreign words—his pronunciations of German names is an exercise in teeth clenching anger for this listener, but again, I'd have torn up this audiobook and burned it ten pages in (oh, sorry, yes, you can't tear up an audiobook) if this had not been the ONLY audiobook I could find on the Dieppe invasion (it can't, by any stretch, be called a "raid.")
But time and again, the question keeps haunting me: Do the producers of these audiobooks about World War II, which, after all, involved MANY individuals of foreign extraction fighting in places with many, many foreign names using many, many methods of locomotion unfamiliar to the casual listener—do they even give a **CURSORY** examination of the potential narrator's abilities to pronounce a) French words b) German words c) nautical words d) suspicious English words, like "Ad hoc" . . . ?
If they had, they would have thrown the book at this guy long before I ever did.
When To Throw The Book At Someone
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So much information, very well laid out timelines from different perspectives. Just a great work.
So much I didn't know...
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great
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