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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. [Second Impression.]

SECOND IMPRESSION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Published: Heinemann, [1956]

Stock code: 47135

Price: £48.00

With a small quantity of relevant cuttings loosely inserted. Published a month after the first edition. 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. ALL EARLY PRINTINGS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.111; Law, 0926 (recording the first edition).