One Day In August, David OKeefe
One Day In August, David OKeefe
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One Day In August
Ian Fleming, Enigma, and the Deadly Raid on Dieppe

Author: David O'Keefe

Narrator: Qarie Marshall

Unabridged: 15 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/14/2021

Synopsis

In less than six hours in August 1942, nearly 1,000 British, Canadian, and American commandos died in the French port of Dieppe in an operation that, for decades, seemed to have no real purpose. Was it a dry-run for D-Day, or perhaps a gesture by the Allies to placate Stalin’s impatience for a second front in the west? Canadian historian David O’Keefe uses hitherto classified intelligence archives to prove that this catastrophic and apparently futile raid was, in fact, a mission set up by Ian Fleming of British Naval Intelligence as part of a “pinch” policy designed to capture material relating to the four-rotor Enigma Machine that would permit codebreakers like Alan Turing at Bletchley Park to turn the tide of the Second World War.

About David O'Keefe

David O’Keefe is an award-winning historian, author, filmmaker, and leading authority on Canadian military historical research. A former officer in the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment of Canada), he currently teaches history at Marianopolis College in Quebec and lives outside Montreal.

About Qarie Marshall

Qarie Marshall has narrated over thirty series for the Discovery Channel and the BBC. He has also been a guest voice on Comedy Central's Drawn Together and has recorded BBC radio plays, the in-flight programming for Virgin Atlantic Airlines, over eighty video games for the PlayStation and Xbox, and numerous audiobooks. In 2007, he was made an Associate Artist of The Purple Rose Theatre.

Reviews

Goodreads review by 8stitches 9lives on November 07, 2020

One Day in August reveals in full for the first time the “Ultra Secret” story behind one of WW2’s most controversial mysteries—and one of Canada’s most sorrowful moments. In a narrative as powerful and moving as it is authoritative, David O’Keefe rewrites history, connecting Canada’s tragedy at Diep......more

Goodreads review by Gordon on August 19, 2014

My dad was a soldier with the Canadian army who fought in World War II. Every time I read a book about the Canadian Forces in that war I think of him. He came into the war after the tragic raid on Dieppe, which I am thankful for as if he had been there, I might not be here. So many Canadian men died......more

Goodreads review by John on August 08, 2017

The author bases the book on the premise that the reason for the raid on Dieppe was that it was a pinch raid to capture a four rotor Enigma machine. The actual raid is only covered in the last 70 pages of the book. The bulk of the book goes into Ian Fleming's involvement, cryptographics, other pinch......more

Goodreads review by Bill on November 14, 2020

Once I lost my way in Windsor Ontario and found myself at a war memorial called Dieppe Gardens. Being a military history buff, I knew it commemorated the men of one of the worst botched operations of the Second World War. But I’ve long wondered why that memorial is in Windsor. Now I know: Windsor wa......more

Goodreads review by Michael on September 29, 2014

"This was too big for a raid and too small for invasion: What were you trying to do?" So opens Okeefe's first chapter, quoting a German interrogator questioning a captured Allied Major. This question has long been a puzzle, and the conventional answers about testing Nazi coastal defences as a precur......more

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