Cockleshell Heroes
( Operation FRANKTON ) PHILLIPS, C.E. Lucas
With the Co-operation of Lieutenant-Colonel H. G Hasler and with a Foreword by Admiral The Earl Mountbatten of Burma.
THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN FULL MOROCCO
Published: Heinemann, [1956]
Stock code: 42001
Price: £484.00
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, numerous illustrations in the text and endpaper map,endpapers mildly browned, fore-edge lightly spotted; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
Elegant copy of this classic account of FRANKTON, the attack by Royal Marines canoeists on enemy merchant shipping in Bordeaux harbour in 1942. This book forms the basis of Jose Ferrer's feature film (1955) starring Trevor Howard. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.111; Law, 0926.