"Having just paddled the same route that these guys did, and then have the French remember them like we do, is very touching." Former marine Ben Mason, from Christchurch, joined the 10-man Cockleshell ...

A century-old swimming pool once used to train World War Two's Cockleshell Heroes is set to be demolished. Eastney Swimming Pool in Southsea, Portsmouth, has been closed since the first Covid-19 ...

Campaigners are fighting to save a swimming pool which was used as a training place for the World War Two's 'Cockleshell Heroes' from being demolished. Protesters have vowed to 'not give up' despite ...

THEY don't make war movies like The Cockleshell Heroes anymore. I'm not, by that statement, suggesting that director Jose Ferrer's 1955 epic is in any way better than modern big screen true life ...

In the evening darkness of December 7, 1942, the attack phase of Operation Frankton, the codename for perhaps the most audacious special forces operation of the Second World War, was about to get ...

A book called The Cockleshell Heroes came out when I was ten, and it immediately joined my pantheon of smashing yarns about World War II, along with The Colditz Story. It had everything: heroism, ...