The Cockleshell Canoes
Author: Quentin Rees
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2008-12-15
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1445610442
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The gripping story of the development of the Cockleshell Canoes.
Author: Quentin Rees
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2008-12-15
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1445610442
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The gripping story of the development of the Cockleshell Canoes.
Author: Quentin Rees
Publisher: Most Secret
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781848680654
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Author: Bill Sparks
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2013-10-21
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 1844680045
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is not just the story of what was perhaps the most daring raid undertaken by the commandos during the war, but it is also the true and remarkable account of a desperate escape by Marine Sparks and Major 'Blondie' Hasler across German-occupied France. For nearly three months, while they desperately sought assistance from the suspicious French Resistance and dodged German soldiers at every turn, Sparks and Hasler found themselves avoiding capture and certain death.
Author: Paddy Ashdown
Publisher: Aurum
Published: 2013-05-02
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1781310831
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 ‘Blondie’ Hasler – to paddle ‘Cockleshell’ canoes right into Bordeaux harbour and sink the ships at anchor. It was a desperately hazardous mission from the start – dropped by submarine to canoe some hundred miles up the Gironde into the heart of Vichy France, surviving terrifying tidal races, only to face the biggest challenge of all: escaping across the Pyrenees. Fewer than half the men made it to Bordeaux; only four laid their mines; just two got back alive. But the most damage was done to the Germans’ sense of impregnability. Paddy Ashdown, himself a member of the Royal Marines’ elite Special Boat Squadron formed as a consequence of Frankton, has always been fascinated by this classic story of bravery and ingenuity - as a young man even meeting his hero Hasler once. Now, after researching previously unseen archives and tracing surviving witnesses, he has written the definitive account of the raid. The real truth, he discovers – a deplorable tale of Whitehall rivalry and breakdowns in communication – serves only to make the achievements of the ‘Cockleshell’ heroes all the more heroic.
Author: Saul David
Publisher: William Collins
Published: 2021-09-02
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780008513368
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Quentin Rees
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2010-12-15
Total Pages: 676
ISBN-13: 1445610310
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The definitive book on the Cockleshell Heroes, and one of the most famous Marine raids of World War Two.
Author: Quentin Rees
Publisher:
Published: 2013-10-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781445616896
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The definitive book on the Cockleshell Heroes, and one of the most famous Marine raids of World War Two.
Author: Tom Keene
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2012-02-29
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 0752483757
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →SOE was born from Churchill’s vision to set ‘Europe ablaze’. However, Tom Keene’s book reveals for the first time how close it came to never existing at all. Many saw SOE as a threat to the existence of MI5 and other intelligence agencies, and some in the armed forces refused to work with the new agency, fearing its broad remit and lack of experienced operatives. SOE, in turn, became ever more secretive, hiding details of their operations from anyone outside the agency. This backstabbing climate of rivalry, confusion and secrecy, not only nearly destroyed SOE, but also had tragic repercussions for the daring Commandos who took part in the legendary ‘Cockleshell Raid’.Cloak of Enemies exposes the secret war within Whitehall and its far-reaching consequences.
Author: Ken Ford
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2011-12-20
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 178096269X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →On the night of December 7, 1942, five canoes were launched off the mouth of the Gironde river, each containing a pair of British commandoes tasked with slipping into the port of Bordeaux and destroying as many of the merchant ships as possible. Only two of the canoes made it to the target, but it was enough. Five enemy ships were badly damaged in the attack. It then became a game of cat and mouse for the surviving commandoes in their attempt to get back to Britain. Some of the men made it to Gibraltar; others were caught and executed. Author Ken Ford gives a blow-by-blow account of one of the most daring raids of World War II, which badly upset the flow of material into Germany, and which gave the British public a much needed victory.
Author: Cecil Ernest Lucas Phillips
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780330480697
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In December 1942, 10 Royal Marines lauched a daring canoe attack on German ships lying in Bordeaux harbour - a harzardous and successful offensive, in which only two survived. This book tells the story of those cockleshell heroes.