On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Philip Torrens wrote: > >"Cockleshell Heroes" (1956, British) Dir: Jose Ferrer > > > >Jose Ferrer, Trevor Howard, Anthony Newley ; Saga of commandoes > >training...excitement never gells. > > > >They are both listed as being available on videotape. > > The movie may be bad - I've never seen it - but the book is quite > stirring and interesting. Of twelve boaters who set out to attach limpet > mines to German shipping, only four (if you count the two who never > leave the submarine mother-ship due to a torn boat) live to see the end > of the war. Along the way, they run several huge tide-races (at night!). > The boats that survive this have to take the decision to abandon the > swimmers from the sunken boats (and we think we have to make tough group > dynamic calls!). No GPSs, no VHFs, no Gore-Tex drysuits, no > paddle-floats - just guts and determination. The book is long out of > print but you may find it at your library or used-book dealer. Well > worth reading. the parts i saw were amusing in someways, and pretty deep, as they were training. real life is never as exciting as the movies ;-) so... i'd watch it again, from start to finish, if i could. i saw it on the history channel, which lways had a disclaimer "not available in canada" -- we wondered if your history isn't the same as ours ;-) mark #------canoeist[at]netbox[dot]com----http://www.diac.com/~zen/mark ---- # mark zen o, o__ o_/| o_. po box 474 </ [\/ [\_| [\_\ ft. lupton, co 80621-0474 (`-/-------/----') (`----|-------\-') #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~ http://www.diac.com/~zen/paddler [index to club websites i administer] Rocky Mtn Sea Kayak Club, Colorado River Flows, Poudre Paddlers The Colorado Paddlers' Resource, Rocky Mtn Canoe Club Trip Page -- Fortune: Nothing pains some people more than having to think. --Martin Luther King, Jr. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Apr 08 1999 - 13:20:50 PDT
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