More than a year before Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, ten Royal Marines in kayaks took the fight to the enemy. On a moonless night in December 1942, some 10 miles off ...

All of the men had volunteered for “hazardous service”. And as they were interviewed by commanding officer Major Herbert “Blondie” Hasler, the danger of the job was stressed yet again. “Do you realise ...

Lord Ashdown, a former special forces commando, tells the story of the 'Cockleshell Heroes', who led one of the most daring and audacious commando raids of World War II. In 1942, Britain was ...

FORMER Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown will unveil a Merseyside memorial to soldiers who embarked on one of the most daring missions of the Second World War. The raid on German ships in a French ...