The Cockleshell Raid - Bordeaux 1942 - Couverture souple

Ford, Ken

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1846036933 ISBN 13 : 9781846036934

Editeur : Osprey Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

On the night of December 7, 1942, five canoes were launched off the mouth of the Gironde river, each containing a pair of British commandoes tasked with slipping into the port of Bordeaux and destroying as many of the merchant ships as possible.

Only two of the canoes made it to the target, but it was enough. Five enemy ships were badly damaged in the attack. It then became a game of cat and mouse for the surviving commandoes in their attempt to get back to Britain. Some of the men made it to Gibraltar; others were caught and executed.

Author Ken Ford gives a blow-by-blow account of one of the most daring raids of World War II, which badly upset the flow of material into Germany, and which gave the British public a much needed victory.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ken Ford was born in Hampshire in 1943. He trained as an engineer and spent almost thirty years in the telecommunications industry before a change in career led him to become a full-time military historian. He is the author of over twenty books on various aspects of World War II. Ken now lives in Southampton.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Osprey Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1846036933
• ISBN 13: 9781846036934
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Gerrard Howard, Kozik Mariusz
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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