Operation Tabarin: Britain's Secret Wartime Expedition to Antarctica 1944-46 by Haddelsey, Stephen

The History Press, UK, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). As New/As New. 1st Edition: 256 pages, illustrated b/w photos, maps. Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. Appears unread. In 1943, with the German Sixth Army annihilated at Stalingrad and Rommels' Afrika Korps in full retreat after defeat at El Alamein, Winston Churchill s War Cabinet met to discuss the opening of a new front. Its battles would be fought not on the beaches of Normandy or in the jungles of Burma but amid the blizzards and glaciers of the Antarctic. Originally conceived as a means by which to safeguard the Falkland Islands from Japanese invasion and to deny harbours in the sub-Antarctic territories to German surface raiders and U-boats, the expedition also sought to re-assert British sovereignty in the face of incursions by neutral Argentina. As well as setting in train a sequence of events that would eventually culminate in the Falklands War, the British bases secretly established in 1944 would go… Read More

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