Phillips, C. E. Lucas, OBE, MC (with the co-operation of Lt. Col. H. G. Hasler, DSO, OBE, RM, foreword Admiral The Earl Mountbatten, KG, PC, GCB, GCS, GCIE, GCVO, DSO), — COCKLESHELL HEROES.
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Pan Books, London, 1957, 1st in imprint, paperback, 256pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., double page map and line drawings in text, #GP59, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, account of the raid on shipping in the German occupied harbour of Bordeaux in December 1942, Operation Frankton, by a team of Royal Marines using 'cockles' (kayak-type canoes) to gain access and then attaching limpet mines - only 2 of the team of 10 survived but six ships were put out of action, a little rubbed at extrems., spine relined, light soiling and creasing to wrappers, edges well tanned, good plus,
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