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A Brilliant Little Operation: The Cockleshell Heroes and the Most Courageous Raid of World War 2
PADDY ASHDOWN
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Description for A Brilliant Little Operation: The Cockleshell Heroes and the Most Courageous Raid of World War 2
Paperback. The complete story of the remarkable canoe raid on German ships in Bordeaux Harbour - by the man who himself served in the Special Boat Squadron. Num Pages: 416 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 35. Weight in Grams: 322.
The complete story of the remarkable canoe raid on German ships in Bordeaux Harbour – by the man who himself served in the Special Boat Squadron.
In 1942, before El Alamein turned the tide of war, the German merchant fleet was re-supplying its war machine with impunity. So Operation Frankton, a daring and secret raid, was launched by Mountbatten’ s Combined Operations and led by the enigmatic ‘ ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Aurum Press Ltd
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781311257
SKU
V9781781311257
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
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99-99
About PADDY ASHDOWN
Jeremy John Durham (Paddy) Ashdown, politician, born 27 February 1941; died 22 December 2018. Paddy Ashdown spent the first seventeen years of his adult life serving his country as an officer in the Royal Marine Commandos, a member of the Special Boat Service and as an employee of the €˜shadowy side' of the Foreign Office. He then went on to become ... Read more
Reviews for A Brilliant Little Operation: The Cockleshell Heroes and the Most Courageous Raid of World War 2
Winner of the Royal Marines Historical Society Literary Award for 2013. ‘A meticulously researched and truly shocking account of an operation that should never have been authorised. In his account of this hair-raising, if not hare-brained enterprise, Ashdown sustains an incisive narrative of great suspense, laced with a moral outrage that is all the more powerful for being both understated ... Read more