One Day In August: Ian Fleming, Enigma, and the Deadly Raid on Dieppe Free Audiobook Download by David O'keefe

The story of the Dieppe Raid, and its central role in Ian Fleming's life and work, is told for the first time in "One Day in August: Ian Fleming, Enigma, and the Deadly Raid on Dieppe," a gripping audiobook by David O'Keefe. What makes this book particularly compelling is that it begins with an atmospheric scene from only one day of the raid when some British troops successfully land on German-occupied France.

One Day In August is the true story of Ian Fleming's daring raid on Dieppe in 1942 which was, at the time, considered a failure. This audiobook download follows Fleming, his friend William Stephenson, and Colonel Dudley "Micky" Smithson as they discuss the plans for the mission and its subsequent failure over several days, culminating in Fleming's personal decision to leave it up to fate.

On August 19th, 1942, Ian Fleming watched and listened to the aftermath of a deadly raid on Dieppe. Fleming was not alone as he observed the attack, he had with him his personal assistant Desmond Morton and the American writer-adventurer David O’Keefe, who had recently joined Fleming’s staff. The three men witnessed the unfolding disaster unfold from shore and became keenly aware of how vulnerable a major invasion would be in their time. On September 28th, Fleming wrote...

This title is not about a day in August, but it rather recounts the history of several key individuals and their actions on a certain day in August 1942. The author David O'Keefe's work is primarily biographical, citing key moments that influenced these powerful men. Through detailing their experiences with military intelligence and personal greed, he reveals how these events exploded years later into the World War II Enigma Machine and Ian Fleming's famous James Bond novel.

Ian Fleming, also known as Ian Lancaster Fleming, was an English author. David O'Keefe is a war correspondent and historian. He has written many books. Dieppe was an operation in World War II that was planned to test the feasibility of a cross-channel invasion of occupied France.

This is the story of the Dieppe raid, which was a military operation during World War II. This is the account by David O'Keefe who was a seaman on one of the six destroyers that attacked enemy anchorages at Dieppe on August 19, 1942. The enemy had been warned weeks in advance of this attack, but they were expecting British forces rather than American ones and were unprepared.