The updated edition of the bestselling true story of the fiasco of the D-Day landings exercise in Devon in 1944 in which over 1,000 soldiers were killed.
Ken Small first discovered the existence of Exercise
Tiger after he took up beachcombing in 1969. From there, Ken
dedicated the next 35 years of his life to honouring the young men
who perished in the disastrous exercise. Pulling a Sherman tank
from the seabed, Ken created a memorial to those who died and
started to share their story, and his, with the world. The
Forgotten Dead was originally published in 1988, bringing both
Exercise Tiger and Ken’s efforts to light. Ken sadly passed away in
2004 after a long struggle with cancer. Today, people from all over
the world travel to Torcross to see Ken’s tank and remember the
tragedy of Exercise Tiger.
Mark Rogerson is a communications specialist and former BBC
television journalist. As well as collaborating with Ken Small on
The Forgotten Dead, he is the author of Home Banking - A Commercial
Proposition? (Lafferty Publications), one of the first examinations
of the impact of technology on branch banking and The Dali Scandal
(Gollancz), an investigation into the billion dollar world-wide
trade in fakes of the Spanish surrealist's work. He lives in
southwest France.
Inspiring and moving
*Warships International Fleet Review*
I wholeheartedly recommend this book. It had me gripped,
entertained and informed from the first to the last page.
*Warship World*
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