FROM DIEPPE TO D-DAY: The Memoirs of Vice Admiral 'Jock' Hughes-Hallett

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Memoirs of Captain John 'Jock' Hughes-Hallett -- Deputy Director of the Local Defense Division at the Admiralty in 1940 and 1941 and later Naval Adviser at Combined Operations Headquarters. He is perhaps best known for being the Naval Commander of the Dieppe Raid of August 1942, and attack which, despite its disastrous outcome, led to one of the most important decisions regarding the D-Day landings of June 1944. It was in the planning for D-Day that the then Commodore Hughes-Hallett's experience came to the fore. Hughes-Hallett retired from the Royal Navy with the rank of Vice Admiral, taking up a new career as Member of Parliament for Croydon East and then Croydon North East.