Charlie Jager was a romantic who read Homer and carried a revolver, Ben Travers a teenage larrikin who played cards and rolled his own. They were mates whose friendship had been forged in the North African battlefields, and were now pitted against Hitler’s crack paratroops in the Battle of Crete....
It is 1941 and Vic Stockton has missed the evacuation from Crete. Behind him lie the bodies of his dead comrades. Ahead lie days hiding from the Germans and a search for safety. Hungry and exhausted, he eventually stumbles upon a monastery whose abbot offers him shelter in an abandoned...
Military strategy during wartime always involves an element of risk. One great risk was the committing of Australian troops to Greece in 1941. In hindsight was this the right decision ? The allied leaders of the day had no such doubts for they saw the need to strategically support Greece,...
This enthralling account of the Resistance in Crete, from the German invasion to the liberation, is by one of its most active Cretan participants. His duties as guide and runner were exhausting and dangerous. They entailed immense journeys on foot, usually at full speed over some of the most precipitous country...
This volume covers in detail the organising and the struggle of the Cretan population against the Germans from 1941 until July 1945 when the Germans left Chania.
This Book entails a large number of Testimonials of Greek War veterans and heroes that fought in the Battle of Crete with personal eyewitness accounts and full details of what transpired during the Battle of Crete, and what these people had to encounter against the NAZI forces.
This volume provides details about the battle around Rethymno from Greek, Allied and German archives. It also provides details about the German occupation and the local resistance, news and other reports from newspapers of the time and the liberation of Rethymno in October 1944 when the Germans withdrew to Chania...
This Book enlists hundreds of names of Cretan people that died on Greek Soil during the Battle of Crete, including the Prisoners of War and people killed whilst the Nazi Forces were burning entire Villages. This Book covers the Battle of Crete, the National Resistance and the German Occupation.
Brief coverage of the main events of the Battle of Crete and specific aspects relating to Rethymno. Covers also a number of specific events relating to the Battle described to him by participants to the battle, the erection of the two Greek-Australian monuments in Rethymno,, his two trips to Australia...
Covers the Italian attack against Greece in 1941 and the subsequent attack by Germany. It details the arrival of the Allies in Crete and their preparation for the defence of island and the attack by the Germans, the battle in the area of Rethymno and the outcome of this battle....