Did lessons learnt in the disastrous Dieppe Raid of 1942 secure the success of the Normandy landings? Julian Thompson questions how useful the tactical blunders and senseless slaughter were in ...

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AUGUST 19, 1942: The disastrous Dieppe Raid – the biggest Allied attack on Nazi-occupied Europe prior to D-Day – ended in a bloodbath and swift withdrawal on this day in 1942. Out of the 6,000 mostly ...

Seventy-five years after the Dieppe Raid, the Canadian War Museum says it will be looking back at Canada’s bloodiest day of the Second World War with a new special display. Dieppe features the stories ...

Dieppe Beach. Under a clear blue sky, tourists unfurl their towels. Some will go for a carefree dip, while others suntan blithely, basking in the insouciance of a French summer holiday. But not many ...

Several times a year, Dave Woodall totes bucket, stepladder and cleaning materials down to Windsor’s riverfront to do a little extra to honour and remember the huge sacrifices made by local soldiers ...

The Dieppe Raid was a strategic blunder for people who should have known better, namely Winston Churchill. He was the mastermind of the Gallipoli campaign against the Turks in the First World War. He ...

It was officially code-named Operation Jubilee and the allied attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe was a pivotal moment in the Second World War. But 75 years later, a battle is brewing over ...

This operation, originally codenamed Operation Rutter but later called Jubilee, was undertaken to test German defences of the port in Dieppe. Britain had enjoyed success against the Germans with the ...

The great majority of Canadian soldiers who took part in the ill-fated Dieppe Raid in France 62 years ago were based in a camp on nearby Witley Common. The sky was glorious to see at Boulogne as the ...