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The last of the Cockleshell heroes : a World War Two memoir by William Sparks with Michael Munn is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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In December, 1942, one of the most daring and innovative attacks on enemy shipping was launched by twelve commandos in canoes who became legendary as the Cockleshell Heroes. Of the twelve, two were unable to pursue their mission when their canoe was damaged on the submarine transporting them to France, and two came back alive. Now, for the first time, one of the two survivors, and now the only one living, William Sparks, DSM, tells his own incredible story of the Cockleshell Heroes, a personal a
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- Author
- William Sparks with Michael Munn
- Publisher
- Leo Cooper
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780850522976
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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