The Dakar Expedition and the Dudley North Affair
by
Arthur J. Marder
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Continuing on from his study of the Oran operation of July 1940, when the French warships were destroyed at Mers-el-Kébir, the author investigates the allied expedition of September that year, with De Gaulle present, which unsuccessfully attempted to break the French at Dakar away from the Vichy...