Research Catalog

Title

Operation suicide : the remarkable story of the Cockleshell raid / Robert Lyman.

Author

Lyman, Robert.

Publication

London : Quercus, 2012.

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Details

Description

xxii, 346 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

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.

Subject

• Großbritannien Royal Marines
• 1939-1945
• Bordeaux Raid, 1942
• World War, 1939-1945 > Commando operations > Great Britain
• Commando troops
• Kommandounternehmen
• Weltkrieg 1939-1945
• Great Britain
• Bordeaux

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN

• 9780857382405
• 0857382403
• 9781780872513
• 1780872518
• 9780857382412
• 0857382411

OCLC

• ocn757147621
• 757147621
• SCSB-1632165

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library