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Blurb: “On April 22, 1918, a thousand officers and men set out across the English Channel on the most daring naval raid of the war. The ships they sailed in were obsolete cruisers, fragile motor launches, even two ferryboats
—a ragged squadron of expendable ships, few of which were expected to return. For this was the raid against Zeebrugge, most heavily defended of all German U-Boat bases, and the ships were sent to die under the German guns.
Only by blowing up and sinking their own cruisers in the mouth of the U-Boat canal could the raiders succeed! As for the men-there was little chance that any of them would survive.
In the next six hours, these thousand men -every one of whom had volunteered - attacked, fought and died in an inferno of German machine gun and artillery fire. Before dawn, they had earned more of the world's highest military awards than had ever been granted in a single action-before or since!
"May well rank as the finest feat of arms of the Great War and certainly as an episode unsurpassed in the history of the Royal Navy. -Sir Winston Churchill”