{"product_id":"9781399035668","title":"From Dunkirk to D-Day : A Commando's War","description":"\u003cp\u003eBill Adlam's hair-raising escape from Dunkirk, his dramatic�commando raids and his storming the D-Day beaches reads like�fiction. But it all happened.   Bill escaped the Dunkirk disaster via a bayonet charge into�Nazi machine guns. He was presented with the Military Medal�`for gallantry under fire' by King George VI. Later, Bill volunteered for�commandos: he thrived on adrenaline.   Number 4 Commando took him to a surgical strike in the�north of Norway. The stated objective: to destroy oil installations.�It was a feint. Ian Fleming of the Secret Intelligence Service had�masterminded the raid. Its objective: to help break the Enigma Code.   Number 4 Commando then sent him on a raid to Dieppe in August 1942 to�spike naval guns to enable a landing by Canadian forces. Bill's�commanding officer was Lord Lovat: cousin to Ian Fleming and�(allegedly) template for the fictional James Bond.   Bill's prowess as a commando saw him headhunted to a top secret�location in the wilds of Scotland. Here he trained others in�the dark arts of `butcher and bolt'.   On the morning o 6 June 1944, D-Day, Bill passed over the sands of Normandy�in minutes. The next two months saw him up against Hitler's�elite army and Waffen SS divisions.   The reader will ask the same question that Bill asked: how�would he ever come out alive?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45470779277533,"sku":"9781399035668","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9781399035668.jpg?v=1720191910","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9781399035668","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}