In the late spring of 1941 the German juggernaut was still rolling across Europe, and had recently conquered Yugoslavia and Greece—and set its eyes on the more than forty thousand British, ...

Crete 1941: Germany’s lightning airborne assault. New York: Osprey Publishing, 2012. Kavanaugh, Stephen. Hitler's Malta Option: A Comparison Of The Invasion Of Crete (Operation Merkur) And The ...

During the Battle of Crete in May 1941, New Zealand Sergeant Alfred Clive Hulme became one of the campaign’s most unusual ...

Early on May 20, 1941, thousands of German paratroopers, known as Fallschirmjägers, in hundreds of transport planes and gliders were preparing to assault the Greek island of Crete. It was the first ...