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Author | : Yannis Prekatsounakis |
Publisher | : Helion and Company |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2017-02-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1913118460 |
Download The Battle For Heraklion. Crete 1941 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Crete, 20 May 1941: the first campaign-sized airborne assault is launched. Many books have been written about this famous invasion, with the emphasis mainly on the battles for Maleme and Chania. The Battle for Heraklion - an epic struggle - remained largely forgotten and widely unstudied. Yet the desperate fight for Heraklion had everything: street-fighting in the town; heroic attacks against well-fortified positions and medieval walls; heavy losses on all sides; and tragic stories involving famous German aristocratic families like the von Blüchers and members of the Bismarck family. This book highlights personal stories and accounts - and the author’s access to records from all three sides allowed accounts to be placed in their correct place and time. Finally, the history of the battle is written with the added perspective of extensive Greek accounts and sources. In contrast, earlier books were based solely on British and German sources - totally ignoring the Greek side. Many of these accounts are from people who were fighting directly against each other - and some reveal what the enemies were discussing and thinking while they were shooting at or attacking each other. Some accounts are so accurate and detailed that we can even identify who killed whom. In addition, long-lost stories behind both well known and previously unpublished pictures are revealed. For the first time, 75 year-old mysteries are solved: what were the names of the paratroopers in the planes seen crashing in famous pictures? What was the fate of soldiers seen in pictures taken just before the battle? The author has studied the battlefield in every detail - thus giving the reader the opportunity to understand actions and incidents by examining what happened on the actual field of battle. For example, how was it possible for a whole platoon to be trapped and annihilated, as in the fate of Wolfgang Graf von Blücher? Such a question is not easily answered even by people with a military background. How was it possible for the paratroopers to fail in their attempt to occupy the town? The answers to questions like these became very clear when the author walked through the battlefields - following the accounts of the people from all sides who had fought there and which describe the same incidents. The author’s extensive research is vividly presented via detailed maps and photographs, both from the era of the battle and today; even battlefield archaeology plays a role in revealing what really happened on the battlefield. The author’s approach addresses two different types of readers: those who are largely unfamiliar with the battle - hence the emphasis on personal stories, accounts and pictures - and the researcher who wants a reliable source of firsthand material and perhaps a different point of view, such as is offered by Greek accounts and sources (and by the writer’s detailed analysis of the battle). This fresh account of one of the Second World War’s most memorable battles is given added authority by the writer’s military background, together with his deep knowledge of the battlefield and his access to Greek accounts and sources.
Author | : Peter Antill |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2012-11-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1782007105 |
Download Crete 1941 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : I. McD. G. Stewart |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Struggle for Crete, 20 May - 1 June 1941 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Providing an account of the struggle for Crete during World War II, this book contains some of the author's own experiences as a Medical Officer at the time of the battle. The author describes the leadership, the geography, the communications problems and the delayed counter-attack.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : |
Download The German Campaigns in the Balkans (spring, 1941). Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : C. A. MacDonald |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Lost Battle--Crete, 1941 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The relentless and stubborn German commander Kurt Student, to the British World War I hero Brigadier General Freyberg. He shows how misjudgments on both sides led simultaneously to British disaster and to a hollow victory for the Nazis. Despite their devastating losses, the Nazis nevertheless defeated the British forces on the island. Although their intelligence was strong, the British were militarily unprepared. Callum MacDonald tells this compelling story as a lesson.
Author | : Antony Beevor |
Publisher | : John Murray |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2011-10-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1848546351 |
Download Crete Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Stella Tzobanakis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Premier's Reading Challenge |
ISBN | : 1742030823 |
Download Creforce Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the first parachute drop of World War II, the Germans invaded Crete on 20 May, 1941. Australian, New Zealand and British troops, alongside Greek soldiers and the people of Crete, formed a crucial bond as they defended the tiny island.
Author | : David Arthur Thomas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780450025549 |
Download Crete 1941, the Battle at Sea Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : G. C. Kiriakopoulos |
Publisher | : Holy Cross Orthodox Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Crete (Greece) |
ISBN | : 9780917653490 |
Download Ten Days to Destiny Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : C. A. MacDonald |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Crete (Greece) |
ISBN | : 9780330490597 |
Download The Lost Battle Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.