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== In popular culture == * ''Someone In Time'' by Stuart Cowley is a 2019 novel based around the events of "Exercise Tiger" from the point of view of fictitious people and their individual stories.<ref>{{cite news |last=Faulkner |first=Elise |date=6 August 2019 |title=Stuart Cowley Finally Releases Screenplay Turned Novella, "Someone in Time" |newspaper=[[The Western Morning News]]|url=https://southwesternnews.co.uk/lifestyle/books/stuart-cowley-finally-releases-screenplay-turned-novella-someone-in-time/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031161006/https://southwesternnews.co.uk/lifestyle/books/stuart-cowley-finally-releases-screenplay-turned-novella-someone-in-time/ |archive-date=31 October 2020}}</ref><ref>Someone In Time by Stuart Cowley {{ISBN|978-1-08117-333-3}}</ref> * Sanford Margalith's novel ''Captains'' is a fictionalised account of his experiences during the Slapton Sands incident.{{sfn|Margalith|2001|p=224}}<ref>{{cite magazine |date=March 2001 |title=Fiction Book Review: CAPTAINS |magazine=[[Publishers Weekly]] |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-9657929-8-1 |access-date=6 June 2019}}</ref> * In her book ''The Armada Boy'', [[Kate Ellis (author)|Kate Ellis]] relocated Exercise Tiger from Slapton to Bereton on the Devon coast, and used it as the background of the story. * A major plotline of ''[[Foyle's War]]'' was based on the Slapton Sands disaster, in the episode entitled [[Foyle's War (series 5)#"All Clear"|"All Clear"]]. * The [[Jack Higgins]] novel ''[[Night of the Fox]]'' begins with a fictionalised account of the Battle of Lyme Bay and the primary plot involves rescuing one of the BIGOT officers. * The [[Leslie Thomas]] novel ''The Magic Army'' is a fictionalised account of the evacuation of Slapton and the events leading up to the Slapton Sands disaster.{{sfn|Thomas|1981}} * The 1985 film ''[[Code Name: Emerald]]'' is based around the disaster. As part of a deception from a Nazi spy who is a British Double Agent a message is sent to German High Command that indicating the location of a rehearsal for landings in France. Due to the secrecy around Operation Tiger they are unaware the location and time coincide with the Operation. Consequently, the E-boats attack and capture an officer with oversight of the D-Day landings. The plot revolves around ensuring his secrets aren't revealed necessitating a delay in the Normandy plans. * The [[J. D. Salinger]] short story ''For Esme with Love and Squalor'' is narrated by an American serviceman suffering Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Devon after the Slapton Sands massacre. * The final issue of [[DC Comics]] [[Sgt. Rock]] concerns Exercise Tiger and its aftermath. * ''The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips'' by Michael Morpurgo is based around the events, following the story of a girl who is forced to leave Slapton and her cat.
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