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The Jersey Evening Post has just published an article entitled “Sark commando raid that caused Hitler to retaliate” focussing on Operation Basalt (the book). “The book reveals in gripping detail the story of the night-time raid,” it says. Click here to read the whole article (PDF).

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Operation Basalt is now available for purchase online from a number of booksellers.  Here’s a partial list, sorted in order of discount: This list is accurate as of 6 June 2016. £9.26 Lowest price! Books Etc – 49% off – free delivery in the UK too £12.59 WH Smith £13.35 Hive – free home delivery or pick…

We’ll be celebrating the publication of Operation Basalt in the Island Hall on Sark (pictured), on Saturday, 21 May 2016. More details coming here soon — but for those keen to book their visits to Sark that weekend, please email ericlee@labourstart.org.

The print version of OPERATION BASALT will not contain my annotated version of the Bibliography, but I wanted to share my thoughts about some of the sources I used. Many of these books are no longer in print, but all can be found at the British Library in London.

    I’m very pleased to report that the current issue of Sark Life magazine contains my article “Mrs Pittard and the Commandos”. Here is an excerpt: They found no Germans.  Instead they found, as one commando later recalled, “an elderly woman in a nightgown, sleepy eyed and looking at them with astonishment.”  The woman…

I am very happy to be able to publish here Graham Robinson’s essay about his father Tim, who served with the Small Scale Raiding Force — the group that carried out Operation Basalt.  My book has an appendix addressing the issue of who were the “other ranks” who participated in the raid; the names of…

The memorial tree planted in Sark to commemorate the October 1942 commando raid. Note that Major Geoffrey Appleyard, the commander of the force, was only 26 years old when he died. The tree can be found by walking the route the commandos took; it is near the Dixcart Hotel.

This article by Sue Daly appeared on the official Sark website this week.  It describes Eric Lee’s talk at La Societe Sercquaise on Sunday, 8 February 2015. The link no longer works after 10 years, sorry.