Two months to the day before the surrender of Third Reich, the Germans
launched a night raid from Jersey on Granville. One hundred and fifty
and a dozen boats participated in this operation having three main
objectives: making the port unusable, grabbing one or more vessels for
refueling and to destroy all buildings lying in the harbor. The raid,
that one historian has called "naval hold-up", made history by the
audacity of its design and effectiveness of its participants. The story
deserves to be told, seventy years later, in an illustrated book
including many period photographs, maps, plans and computer graphics.