Download or read book The Last of the Cockleshell Heroes written by William Sparks and published by Leo Cooper Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 account of courage, danger and survival.