Battle Of Crete

Author : Antony Beevor
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1848546351
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crete written by Antony Beevor and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed historian and best-selling author Antony Beevor vividly brings to life the epic struggles that took place in Second World War Crete - reissued with a new introduction. 'The best book we have got on Crete' Observer The Germans expected their airborne attack on Crete in 1941 - a unique event in the history of warfare - to be a textbook victory based on tactical surprise. They had no idea that the British, using Ultra intercepts, knew their plans and had laid a carefully-planned trap. It should have been the first German defeat of the war, but a fatal misunderstanding turned the battle round. Nor did the conflict end there. Ferocious Cretan freedom fighters mounted a heroic resistance, aided by a dramatic cast of British officers from Special Operations Executive.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The German Campaigns in the Balkans (spring, 1941). written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Monteath
Publisher : NewSouth
ISBN 13 : 1742244688
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battle on 42nd Street written by Peter Monteath and published by NewSouth. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At what point does the will to survive on the battlefield give way to bloodlust? The battle for Crete was at once the most modern and the most ancient of wars. For a week Australian and New Zealand forces were relentlessly hammered from the skies by the Luftwaffe and pursued across Crete by some of the most accomplished and best equipped forces Hitler could muster. On the morning of 27 May 1941, however, all that was about to change. When a unit of German mountain troops approached the Allies’ defensive line — known as 42nd Street — men from the Australian 2/7th and 2/8th Battalions and New Zealanders from several battalions counter-attacked with fixed bayonets. By the end, German bodies were strewn across the battlefield. Acclaimed historian Peter Monteath draws on recollections and records of Australian, New Zealand, British and German soldiers and local Cretans to reveal the truth behind one of the bloodiest battles of the Second World War. 'This is military history at its best: deeply researched, powerfully told and proving that the essence of war is men killing other men.' — Joan Beaumont

Author : C. A. MacDonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780330490597
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Battle written by C. A. MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly intriguing and moving account of this significant and wasteful battle. The invasion of Crete in 1941 should have been a textbook battle for General Kurt Students German troops, a swift and decisive blitzkrieg based on technical surprise. In fact it was based on a series of misjudgements which resulted in large and bloody losses and Crete became the graveyard of the German parachute troops.

Author : Peter Antill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782007105
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crete 1941 written by Peter Antill and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operation Mercury, the German airborne assault on the island of Crete in May 1941, was the first strategic use of airborne forces in history. The assault began on 20 May, with landings near the island's key airports, and reinforcements the next day allowed the German forces to capture one end of the runway at Maleme. By 24 May, the Germans were being reinforced by air on a huge scale and on 1 June Crete surrendered. This book describes how desperately close the battle had been and explains how German losses so shocked the Führer that he never again authorised a major airborne operation.

Author : G. C. Kiriakopoulos
Publisher : Holy Cross Orthodox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780917653490
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ten Days to Destiny written by G. C. Kiriakopoulos and published by Holy Cross Orthodox Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For ten dramatic and bitterly fought days in May, 1941, British Commonwealth and Greek soldiers fought with the valiant assistance of Cretan civilians -- men and women, young and old -- to hold their island against a Nazi onslaught. This is the documented story of the one of the most important yet least acknowledged battles of World War II.

Author : Matthew Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780908318162
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battle for Crete written by Matthew Wright and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-08 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confronting the might of the Luftwaffe! New Zealand soldiers arrived in Crete during early May 1941, short of equipment after a hasty evacuation from Greece. Three weeks later Germany invaded from the air, and the fate of New Zealand

Author : Bruno Mugnai
Publisher : Century of the Soldier
ISBN 13 : 9781911628040
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cretan War, 1645-1671 written by Bruno Mugnai and published by Century of the Soldier. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The army and the navy of Venice and Ottoman Empire during the campaigns fought for the possession of the 'pearl of the Mediterranean'. The legendary Venetian resistance impressed the courts of whole Europe, transforming the conflict in the 'Campo di Marte' of the continent.

Author : George Forty
Publisher : Ian Allan Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battle of Crete written by George Forty and published by Ian Allan Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines in detail, largely from the German viewpoint, one of the most bitterly contested engagements of the Western front. Includes a wealth of contemporary photographs, together with first-hand reminiscences of combatants. The essential reference to this important but often overlooked battle.

Author : Ron Palenski
Publisher : Hodder Moa
ISBN 13 : 1869713095
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Men of Valour written by Ron Palenski and published by Hodder Moa. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May of 1941 New Zealand?s citizen soldiers, not long removed from their day jobs, were thrust into a type of fighting the world had not seen before: a land force against an airborne invasion. It was man against machines. In many ways, Crete became in the Second World War what Gallipoli had been in the First: another Dunkirk ? a scrambling effort to survive after defeat. This book breathes new life into the baptism of fire for New Zealand?s men of valour. It puts a human face on a military disaster, a failure that paradoxically was as large for the victors, the Germans, as it was for the losers, the Allies, among whom New Zealanders dominated. Crete tempered the New Zealand Division, and it went on to become one of the most respected and admired fighting forces of the Second World War.