It takes the average reader 7 hours and 5 minutes to read A Brilliant Little Operation by Paddy Ashdown
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The complete story of the remarkable canoe raid on German ships in Bordeaux Harbour – by the man who himself served in the Special Boat Squadron. In 1942, before El Alamein turned the tide of war, the German merchant fleet was re-supplying its war machine with impunity. So Operation Frankton, a daring and secret raid, was launched by Mountbatten’s Combined Operations and led by the enigmatic ‘Blondie’ Hasler – to paddle ‘Cockleshell’ canoes right into Bordeaux harbour and sink the ships at anchor. It was a desperately hazardous mission from the start – dropped by submarine to canoe some...
A Brilliant Little Operation by Paddy Ashdown is 416 pages long, and a total of 106,496 words.
This makes it 140% the length of the average book. It also has 130% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 41 minutes to read A Brilliant Little Operation aloud.
A Brilliant Little Operation is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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