Cockleshell Heroes
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the darkest days of World War II, a small band of Royal Marines embarked on one of the most audacious and perilous commando raids in British military history — paddling flimsy two-man canoes deep into Nazi-occupied France to sabotage German shipping moored in the port of Bordeaux. Cockleshell Heroes chronicles Operation Frankton, the daring December 1942 mission conceived by the brilliant and unconventional Lieutenant-Colonel H. G. Hasler, whose ten men set out knowing that capture meant almost certain death. Written with the full co-operation of Hasler himself and graced with a foreword by Admiral the Earl Mountbatten of Burma, C. E. Lucas Phillips constructs a narrative of breathtaking tension, marshalling first-hand accounts and meticulous research to place the reader inside each freezing, tide-battered cockpit. Beyond the pulse-quickening action, this account stands as a profound testament to courage, sacrifice, and the indomitable spirit of men who volunteered for missions from which only two returned. Lucas Phillips, himself a distinguished soldier and military historian, writes with the precision of a tactician and the empathy of a humanist, ensuring that the fallen are never reduced to mere statistics. A work that defined the genre of popular British military history, it raises the haunting question: what drives ordinary men to attempt the extraordinary — and what is the true cost of glory?
Author: C. E. Lucas Phillips
Format: Hardback
Genre: Military history
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the darkest days of World War II, a small band of Royal Marines embarked on one of the most audacious and perilous commando raids in British military history — paddling flimsy two-man canoes deep into Nazi-occupied France to sabotage German shipping moored in the port of Bordeaux. Cockleshell Heroes chronicles Operation Frankton, the daring December 1942 mission conceived by the brilliant and unconventional Lieutenant-Colonel H. G. Hasler, whose ten men set out knowing that capture meant almost certain death. Written with the full co-operation of Hasler himself and graced with a foreword by Admiral the Earl Mountbatten of Burma, C. E. Lucas Phillips constructs a narrative of breathtaking tension, marshalling first-hand accounts and meticulous research to place the reader inside each freezing, tide-battered cockpit. Beyond the pulse-quickening action, this account stands as a profound testament to courage, sacrifice, and the indomitable spirit of men who volunteered for missions from which only two returned. Lucas Phillips, himself a distinguished soldier and military historian, writes with the precision of a tactician and the empathy of a humanist, ensuring that the fallen are never reduced to mere statistics. A work that defined the genre of popular British military history, it raises the haunting question: what drives ordinary men to attempt the extraordinary — and what is the true cost of glory?