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Cockleshell Heroes - E Lucas Phillips, C
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In October 1942, Chief of Combined Operations, Vice-Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, unveiled the outline plan for 'Operation Frankton' - destined to become one of the bravest, most courageous and imaginative raids of the entire war. By December 1942 the plan was put into action. Ten Royal Marines launched a daring attack by canoe on enemy shipping lying in the harbour of Bordeaux - a hazardous and successful offensive which only two survived. 'As a story of human courage, the story of the Cockleshell Heroes will live for ...

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Cockleshell Heroes 2000, Pan Books, London

ISBN-13: 9780330480697

Mass-market paperback