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 DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Heinemann, [1956]
Stock code: 47180
Price: £130.00
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, numerous illustrations in the text and endpaper maps, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter chafed at extremities.
Bright 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 striking wrap-around dustwrapper artwork is by Francis Russell Flint from his painting commissioned for the film. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.111; Law, 0926 (recording the first edition).