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Cockleshell Raid

By Paul Oldfield

Book information

Publisher
Pen and Sword Military
Year
2012
ISBN
1781592551
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
9 MB (9432069 bytes)
Series
Battleground Europe
Pages
\268
Time added
2016-10-11 20:17:20

Description

Operation 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.

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