This is a well known disaster of World War when German E-Boats attacked an unarmed convoy of troopships off the southwest coast of England in April 1944. There were many casualties and the author’s research shows the true death toll to be far in excess of the official figure and proves persistent accusations of a cover-up to be true. It must be stressed that this is not a re-hash of existing erroneous facts, rumors, supposition and hearsay but corroborated, exciting new evidence exposing an international conspiracy. There are secret mass burials, missing bodies and empty graves, lost ships and army units that have simply vanished from the records.
Research sources for this manuscript are all fresh from veteran’s previously untapped personal memorabilia, and archive documents, which are not now publicly available.
The book explores details of Exercise “Tiger” being passed by British Intelligence to German double agents.
The amphibious landings of “Tiger” are described in detail with eyewitness accounts of the shooting of soldiers as they landed by other American troops acting as “defenders” of the beaches. Rumour surrounds this rehearsal and it is proved that local “witnesses” have confused casualties of Exercise “Tiger” with even more casualties from a later rehearsal at the same location giving rise to a second cover up.
The German E-Boat logs have been located and translated, revealing gross inconsistencies with the Allied official version of how many ships were sunk. American survivors are quoted giving an emotional account of death and survival in the cold Channel waters, and the Royal Navy’s view of how and why they failed to defend the convoy against the German attack.
Cemetery burial records which, if they can be believed, show soldiers buried twice, fictitious service numbers attached to genuine soldiers, bodies with the wrong service numbers, and only a small proportion of those taken to the cemetery were actually buried there. Some have a date of death of D-Day, some even have graves in Normandy. This is not sloppy administration or record keeping but a deliberate falsification of documents to mask the true number of men lost in Exercise “Tiger”.
First edition: Published 2008ISBN 978-0-9555698-2-1
Specification: Softback 229mm x 151mm - 259 pages - 35 photographs plus maps, charts and diagrams.
ISBN 978-0-9555698-2-1
