Crete 1941: The Battle and the Resistance - Paperback
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Antony BeevorAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2014-06-24Pages:448
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143126423ISBN-10:143126423UPC:9780143126423Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Wars & Conflicts, EuropeBook Topic:World War II, Greece, GermanySize:8.50 x 5.45 x 0.95 inchesWeight:0.78Product ID:SCXWN7C76W
The bestselling author of The Battle of Arnhem and D-Day vividly reconstructs the epic WWII struggle for Crete - reissued with a new introduction
Nazi Germany expected its airborne attack on Crete in 1941 to be a textbook victory based on tactical surprise. Little did they know that the British, using Ultra intercepts, had already laid a careful trap. It should have been the first German defeat of the war when a fatal misunderstanding turned the battle around. Prize-winning historian and bestselling author Antony Beevor lends his gift for storytelling to this important conflict, showing not only how the situation turned bad for Allied forces, but also how ferocious Cretan freedom fighters mounted a heroic resistance. Originally published in 1991, Crete 1941 is a breathtaking account of a momentous battle of World War II.
Nazi Germany expected its airborne attack on Crete in 1941 to be a textbook victory based on tactical surprise. Little did they know that the British, using Ultra intercepts, had already laid a careful trap. It should have been the first German defeat of the war when a fatal misunderstanding turned the battle around. Prize-winning historian and bestselling author Antony Beevor lends his gift for storytelling to this important conflict, showing not only how the situation turned bad for Allied forces, but also how ferocious Cretan freedom fighters mounted a heroic resistance. Originally published in 1991, Crete 1941 is a breathtaking account of a momentous battle of World War II.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143126423ISBN-10:143126423UPC:9780143126423Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Wars & Conflicts, EuropeBook Topic:World War II, Greece, GermanySize:8.50 x 5.45 x 0.95 inchesWeight:0.78Product ID:SCXWN7C76W
Antony Beevor is the bestselling author of D-Day: The Battle for Normandy, which received the Royal United Services' Institute Westminster Medal; The Battle for Spain, which received the La Vanguardia Prize; Paris After the Liberation 1944-1949; Stalingrad, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History, and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature; and The Fall of Berlin 1945, which received the first Longman-History Today Trustees' Award. He is the recipient of the 2014 Pritzker Military Museum & Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. Beevor lives in England.
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