Author: ASHDOWN Paddy
Title: A Brilliant Little Operation. The Cockleshell Heroes and the Most Courageous Raid of WWII. [Maps by Harriet McDougall.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Description: Aurum,, [2012]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published to commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the well-known but ill-fated raid on German merchant shipping in Bordeaux. Includes much original content unavailable when Lucas Phillips compiled the first account in 1956.

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, royal marines, cockleshell heroes, frankton, operation frankton, bordeaux, ashdown, paddy ashdown


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