Название: A Reluctant Hero: The Life of Captain Robert Ryder VC Автор: Richard Hopton Издательство: Pen and Sword ISBN: 1848843704 Год: 2012 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 240 Для сайта:Mirknig.su Размер: 6,1 МБ Язык: Английский
This is the first biography of Captain Robert Ryder V.C., Royal Navy (1908-1986), one of the greatest naval heroes of the Second World War. Ryder led the audacious raid on St Nazaire in March 1942 which completely destroyed the port’s dry dock, depriving the German’s mighty pocket battleships of its use for the remainder of the war. The raid was one of the most brilliantly-executed combined operations of the war, much of the credit for which must go to Ryder’s outstanding planning and courageous leadership. He received one of five Victoria Crosses awarded for the operation. Although Ryder’s name will be forever linked with the raid on St Nazaire, the rest of his war service was no less distinguished. Torpedoed in a ‘Q’ ship in 1940 he was rescued after clinging to a piece of wreckage for four days. After St Nazaire, he was heavily involved in the planning of combined operations and took part in the ill-fated raid on Dieppe. On ‘D’ Day he lead a naval assault party in the first wave of the invasion.
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A Reluctant Hero: The Life of Captain Robert Ryder VC 
