Episode 87: Dieppe Revisited
Guest: Patrick Bishop, author, Operation Juiblee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice
Sunday, January 2, 2022
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This week on History Happy Hour: We return to the subject of the catastrophic 1942 Dieppe Raid, with a new take by historian and journalist Patrick Bishop, author of Operation Jubilee: Dieppe 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice.
Using firsthand testimony and recently declassified archive materials, the bestselling author explores how politics, ambition, fecklessness and inertia led thousands of well-trained Canadian soldiers into a hellish nightmare.
Host-Historians Chris Anderson and Rick Beyer talk to Bishop about his findings, and the decades-old controversy over whether there was really any point to this raid at all. Sunday at 4PM on History Happy Hour, where history is always on tap.
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Patrick Bishop
"Operation Jubilee was all the more tragic for having been entirely avoidable, in ways reasons that Bishop sets out powerfully, unflinchingly and unanswerably”
—Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny