DIEPPE DECODED

David O'Keefe has made a major discovery that changes what we know about the Dieppe Raid, the deadliest Allied raid during World War II. Dieppe was Germany's only victory on the Western Front following the Fall of France, and the reason for the Allied raid has confounded German scholars for decades.

O'Keefe's book, Dieppe Decoded, will demonstrate, for the first time, that there was a connection between the raid and Britain's top-secret intelligence-gathering operation called Ultra. Ian Fleming plays an important role in the story. There are several quotes in the proposal from military experts, including one from American historian Brian Villa, that speak to the significance of O'Keefe's findings. It took 15 years of painstaking effort, and relentless research in the archives of five countries, for O'Keefe to finally set the record straight on Dieppe and solve one of the Second World War's most perplexing mysteries - what was the purpose of the Dieppe raid? Thanks to O'Keefe's groundbreaking research, we now have the answer. This story has already attracted the interest of the New York Times, and Diantha Parker, a writer for the paper, will be travelling to Dieppe later this month to attend the world premiere of O'Keefe's forthcoming documentary about Dieppe, which is being screened for surviving veterans and their families.