Forgotten Dead: The true story of Exercise Tiger, the disastrous rehearsal for D-Day

On April 27, 1944, German E-boats intercepted rehearsals for the D-Day landings, resulting in the deaths of nearly 1,000 soldiers. Ken Small discovered the story and dedicated his life to honoring the brave young men who perished. He created a memorial and shared their story with the world.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 256 pages
\n Publication date: 28 June 2018
\n Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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On a dark night in 1944, a beautiful stretch of the Devon coast became the scene of desperate horror. Tales began to leak out of night-time explosions and seaborne activity. This was practice for Exercise Tiger, the main rehearsal for the Utah Beach landings. This fiasco, in which nearly 1,000 soldiers died, was buried by officials until it was almost forgotten. That is, until Ken Small discovered the story and decided to dedicate the rest of his life to honouring the brave young men who perished in the disastrous exercise. Pulling a Sherman tank from the seabed, Ken created a memorial to those who died and started to share their story, and his, with the world. This updated edition of a bestselling classic is a gripping tale of wartime disaster and rescue in the words of the soldiers who were there, and of one man's curiosity that turned into a fight to ensure that they would never be forgotten.

\n Weight: 256g\n
Dimension: 197 x 130 x 20 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781472834492\n \n