The Cockleshell Raid - Bordeaux 1942

Informationen zum Autor Ken Ford was born in Hampshire in 1943. He trained as an engineer and spent almost thirty years in the telecommunications industry. He now spends his time as an author and a bookseller specialising in military history. He has written a number of books on various Second World War subjects. Ken now lives in Southampton. Klappentext By the end of 1941 Germany was desperately in need of essential raw materials. Vital supplies from Japan were shipped to Germany by 'blockade runners' using the port of Bordeaux as their main base. Allied forces needed an undertaking to interfere with the work of these lone merchant ships at the port, leading to the formation of plans that ultimately became known as the Cockleshell Heroes Raid, in which a unit of Royal Marine Commandos mounted a raid via canoes launched from a submarine. In this new addition to Osprey's RAID series, author Ken Ford explores the history of what is perhaps the bravest and imaginative raids of the entire war. The book details the original plans of the raid, along with the various complications and challenges faced by the Commandos, and explores the outcome of the raid. The incredible story of how British commandoes infiltrated a heavily defended Axis port by canoe to launch a hazardous attack on enemy shipping. Zusammenfassung 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. This title gives a blow-by-blow account of this most daring raids of World War II. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Origins The Plan The Raid Aftermath Analysis Further Reading

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ken Ford
• Mitarbeit: Howard Gerrard (Illustration), Gerrard Howard (Illustration), Mariusz Kozik (Illustration), Kozik Mariusz (Illustration)
• Verlag: Osprey Publishers
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 10.03.2010
• EAN: 9781846036934
• ISBN: 978-1-84603-693-4
• Seiten: 64
• Abmessung: 178 mm x 246 mm x 6 mm
• Serien: Raid; Raid
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Staatslehre und politische Verwaltung; France, European History, HISTORY / Europe / France, HISTORY / Military / Naval, HISTORY / Military / Special Forces, Warfare & defence, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, Naval forces and warfare, War and defence operations