Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Operation Suicide: The Remarkable Story of the Cockleshell Raid, Robert Lyman.

Operation Suicide: The Remarkable Story of the Cockleshell Raid, Robert Lyman.

A splendid account of the famous canoe raid on German blockade runners based at Bordeaux. As well as a detailed narrative of the raid itself, Lyman has included an excellent account of its origins, the development of the necessary equipment, the formation of the unit that carried out the raid and the origins and repercussions of Hitler's notorious Commando Order.
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