20th twentieth century
A01=Ken Ford
A12=Howard Gerrard
A12=Mariusz Kozik
Analysis
assessment
Author_Howard Gerrard
Author_Ken Ford
Author_Mariusz Kozik
background
battle
Category=JWCK
Category=JWL
Category=NHD
Category=NHWL
Category=NHWR7
conflict
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eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_nobargain
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illustrated
initial strategy
operations
Second World War 2 II
small unit
strategy
tactic
WWII WW2
Product details
- ISBN 9781846036934
- Weight: 240g
- Dimensions: 178 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 10 Mar 2010
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Only two of the canoes made it to the target, but it was enough. Five enemy ships were badly damaged in the attack. It then became a game of cat and mouse for the surviving commandoes in their attempt to get back to Britain. Some of the men made it to Gibraltar; others were caught and executed.
Author Ken Ford gives a blow-by-blow account of one of the most daring raids of World War II, which badly upset the flow of material into Germany, and which gave the British public a much needed victory.
Ken Ford was born in Hampshire in 1943. He trained as an engineer and spent almost thirty years in the telecommunications industry before a change in career led him to become a full-time military historian. He is the author of over twenty books on various aspects of World War II. Ken now lives in Southampton.
