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the remarkable story of the Cockleshell raid

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An edition of Operation suicide (2012)

Operation suicide

the remarkable story of the Cockleshell raid

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During WW2, 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 up the Gironde estuary in an attempt to sink German blockade ships in Bordeaux harbour. Yet this is precisely what happened.

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Quercus
Language
English
Pages
346

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Subjects

Weltkrieg (1939-1945), Kommandounternehmen, Bordeaux Raid (1942) fast (OCoLC)fst00836585, Großbritannien, World War, 1939-1945, Commando troops, Commando operations, Bordeaux Raid, 1942, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, Großbritannien. Marines, World war, 1939-1945, great britain, Weltkrieg, Großbritannien Royal Marines

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Bordeaux, Great Britain

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Table of Contents

1.1941 and 1942
2.The Hand of Steel from the Sea
3.Bordeaux
4.The Intelligence War
5.'Blondie' Hasler
6.The Boom Patrol
7.Decision
8.La Richmond Terrace
9.The Clyde and the Thames
10.Journey to the Gironde
11.The First Night
12.The Garonne
13.Murder by Telephone
14.Attack
15.Escape
16.Execution
17.Home Run.
Machine generated contents note: 1.1941 and 1942
2.The Hand of Steel from the Sea
3.Bordeaux
4.The Intelligence War
5.`Blondie' Hasler
6.The Boom Patrol
7.Decision
8.La Richmond Terrace
9.The Clyde and the Thames
10.Journey to the Gironde
11.The First Night
12.The Garonne
13.Murder by Telephone
14.Attack
15.Escape
16.Execution
17.Home Run.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
940.542147144
Library of Congress
D794.5 .L96 2012, D772

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxii, 346 pages, [8] pages of plates :
Number of pages
346

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OL26456078M
Internet Archive
operationsuicide0000lyma
ISBN 10
0857382403, 1780872518, 0857382411
ISBN 13
9780857382405, 9781780872513, 9780857382412
OCLC/WorldCat
757147621
Amazon ID (ASIN)

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