Author : Stella Tzobanakis
Publisher :
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,87 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Premier's Reading Challenge
ISBN : 1742030823
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 : Jonathan Fennell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 967 pages
File Size : 35,90 MB
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107030951
Jonathan Fennell captures for the first time the true wartime experience of the ordinary soldiers from across the empire who made up the British and Commonwealth armies. He analyses why the great battles were won and lost and how the men that fought went on to change the world.
Author : Michael Scott
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 11,18 MB
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1781599327
Early in the Second World War, Peter Wand-Tetley volunteered for special service. He saw action first with the newly formed Commandos raiding the North African coast and then in the fierce fighting on Crete. Operations with the LRDG in the Western Desert were followed by SAS actions as Rommel retreated to Tunis. Remarkably he then transferred to the Special Operations Executive and was parachuted blind into enemy occupied Greece in 1943. His role was to train and equip Andarte guerillas and his contribution and courage were recognized by the award of an immediate MC.Following victory in Europe he sailed with the Parachute Regiment to Javo where he fought in the counter-insurgency war.As well as describing his exemplary war record, Special Forces Commander covers Wand-Tetleys early life (he was a superb marksman) and his career post war in the turbulent days of the end of Empire.
Author : Donat Gallagher
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 25,62 MB
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1611470498
A Handful of Mischief: New Essays on Evelyn Waugh is a collection of essays based on presentations at the Evelyn Waugh Centenary Conference at Hertford College, Oxford in 2003. There are twelve different essays by authors from various countries, including Australia, Canada, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 10,27 MB
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1667623745
Fueled by idealism and eagerness to contribute to the war effort, Guy Crouchback becomes attached to a commando unit undergoing training on the Hebridean isle of Mugg, where the whisky flows freely and respect must be paid to the laird. But the comedy of Mugg is soon followed by the bitterness of Crete, where chaos reigns and a difficult evacuation must be accomplished.—Goodreads.com.
Author : Francis Albert Eley Crew
Publisher :
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 32,41 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Medicine, Military
ISBN :
Author : Alex Frame
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 39,47 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780864735621
"Flying Boats : My Father's War in the Mediterranean is an exciting and original blend of personal memoir and war history. Alex Frame's father was a flying boat pilot in war and afterwards in peace, and the roots of this book are the logbooks he kept over his 30 year career, the first covering early flights in 1938 and the war years, the second from 1950 to 1960 flying in Sydney and then Tahiti on the legendary Coral route around the Pacific Islands, and the third the final years flying in the Pacific from 1960 to 1969. This book concentrates on the years of World War II , and the star of the story is the Sunderland flying boat T9046, while under the command of Alex's father from November 1940 to June 1941. During this concentrated period of setbacks and disasters for the Commonwealth and British forces, the crews of the large, graceful flying boats were both saviours and victims in the struggle against Hitler's war machine." --Back cover.
Author : Dan Davin
Publisher :
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 42,7 MB
Release : 1953
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN :
Author : Antony Beevor
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 36,3 MB
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1848546351
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 : Albert Palazzo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 28,46 MB
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1921941243
Between 20 May and 1 June 1941 the Second World War came to the Greek island of Crete. The Commonwealth defenders consisted of Australian, New Zealand and British refugees from the doomed Greek Campaign who had not recovered from defeat.
