Kill Rommel!: Operation Flipper 1941: 43 (Raid) - Mortimer, Gavin

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Kill Rommel!Operation Flipper 1941\nAuthor(s): Gavin Mortimer, Peter Dennis, Johnny Shumate, Alan Gilliland\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Osprey Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781472801098, 978-1472801098\nSynopsis\nA detailed, illustrated analysis of the British Commandos audacious attempt to assassinate Rommel in 1941.\n\nIn November 1941, a small party of British Commandos landed by submarine in Libya, tasked with the assassination of General Erwin Rommel, commander of the German forces in North Africa, who was believed to be staying in a villa near the coast. \n\nThree men Lt-Col Geoffrey Keyes, Capt Robin Campbell and Sgt Jack Terry stormed the villa, but the German general was nowhere to be found. In the confused fighting Keyes was killed and Campbell wounded; only two raiders would escape, one of whom was Terry. \n\nThe raid made headlines round the free world, and Keyes was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross. Yet in truth the rai.