{"product_id":"2026200014012-secondhand-cockleshell-heroes","title":"Cockleshell Heroes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Fair\u003cbr\u003eJacket: N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\n\nBeyond 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?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203397656795,"sku":"2026200014012-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/321dceab-57fd-4770-bcaa-9a40855aa11d.png?v=1788148603","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200014012-secondhand-cockleshell-heroes","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}