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The impact of the UK's departure from the EU will be felt far beyond British borders. Across the Channel, locals in the French port of Dieppe fear Brexit will cause serious logistical headaches for ...

Within weeks of Operation Jubilee, the disastrous raid on the Channel port of Dieppe in August 1942, one senior general compared it to the notorious 1917 battle of Passchendaele. The shocked survivors ...

OTTAWA - Legend has that when Canadian troops stormed ashore under a hail of German gunfire at the French port of Dieppe in August 1942, one of the hundreds who eventually died in the attack was ...

Canadians died at Dieppe so we could take the beaches on D-Day. — William Bradford Huie, The Americanization of Emily (1959) 'Why this place?" Walking on shingle gets you nowhere; at every step smooth ...

On Aug. 19, 1942, 5,000 Canadian soldiers launched an attack on the port of Dieppe in Nazi-occupied France. The raid, named Operation Jubilee, was one of the worst disasters in Canadian military ...

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 ...