The Cockleshell Canoes
Author: Quentin Rees
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2008-12-15
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 1445610442
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe gripping story of the development of the Cockleshell Canoes.
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Author: Saul David
Publisher: William Collins
Published: 2021-09-02
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780008513368
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCockleshell Heroes
Author: Quentin Rees
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2010-12-15
Total Pages: 676
ISBN-13: 1445610310
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe definitive book on the Cockleshell Heroes, and one of the most famous Marine raids of World War Two.
The Last of the Cockleshell Heroes
Author: Bill Sparks
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2013-10-21
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 1844680045
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Cockleshell Heroes
Author: Cecil Ernest Lucas Phillips
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780330480697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Cockleshell Heroes
Author: Quentin Rees
Publisher: Amberley Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781848688612
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe definitive book on the Cockleshell Heroes, and one of the most famous Marine raids of World War Two.
The Cockleshell Raid
Author: Ken Ford
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2011-12-20
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 178096269X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn 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.
Africa Lost
Author: Dan Tharp
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2013-08-06
Total Pages: 81
ISBN-13: 1466841184
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUS military veteran and historian Dan Tharp's Africa Lost tells the inside story of some of the greatest special operators you've never heard of. Some of the most explosive combat in Special Operations history is almost completely unknown to the Western World. Everyone knows about Navy SEALs and Green Berets but nobody knows about the deep recce, sabotage, and direct action missions conducted by the Rhodesian SAS. The Rhodesian Light Infantry was a killing machine, participating in combat jumps every night during the heat of the Bush War. The Selous Scouts were perhaps the most innovative and daring unconventional warfare unit in history which would pair white soldiers with turncoat black "former" terrorists who would then infiltrate enemy camps.
Cockleshell Raid
Author: Paul Oldfield
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2013-01-19
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1781592551
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOperation Frankton is a story of how a handful of determined and resourceful men, using flimsy canoes, achieved what thousands could not by conventional means. The volunteers had enlisted for Hostilities Only and, except for their leader, none had been in a canoe before. However, with a few months training they carried out what one German officer described as, the outstanding commando raid of the war. They became known as the Cockleshell Heroes, having been immortalized in a film and a book of that name in the 1950s. This book covers the whole of the Frankton story including the development of the Royal Marines Boom Patrol Detachment, the planning and preparation for the raid, its aftermath and an account of the horrific war crimes inflicted on those who were captured. It also includes the epic escape by Haslar and Corporal Bill Sparks across occupied France into Spain.
Operation Suicide
Author: Robert Lyman
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1623652626
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the Second World War, it is hard to imagine a situation where the British High Command could think that one of the only ways they could attack Hitler was to send ten canoeists with limpet mines to paddle one hundred miles up the Gironde estuary, in the middle of winter, in an attempt to sink German blockade ships in Bordeaux harbor. Yet this is precisely what happened in 1942. The man who gave the go-ahead for the audacious commando raid--Lord Louis Mountbatten, head of Combined Operations--fully anticipated that all ten men would die in the attempt. Mountbatten wasn't far wrong--two ripped their collapsible canoes as they were manhandling them out of the submarine; two drowned when their canoes capsized entering the Gironde estuary; and a further six were captured by the Germans and later executed. By complete chance, the two canoeists who managed to escape--Major "Blondie" Hasler and Marine Bill Sparks--stumbled into the arms of the French resistance. Once in their care, Hasler and Sparks made their way across France and into Spain, crossing the Pyrenees in the company (though they did not know it) of a Gestapo agent intent on bringing down the resistance network. Operation Suicide is the first account of this enthralling raid for over fifty years. In utilizing primary source material, including detailed German records captured by the British in 1944 (which remained censored until 1976), Robert Lyman brings to life one of the most courageous and dramatic events to take place in the darkest days of the Second World War.
