Name: Crete 1941: The Battle and the Resistance
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Author: Antony Beevor
ISBN: 9780143126423

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Crete 1941: The Battle and the Resistance

Type

Physical Book

Author

Antony Beevor

Publisher

Penguin

Year

2014

Language

English

Pages

432

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780143126423

Synopsis "Crete 1941: The Battle and the Resistance "

The bestselling author of The Battle of Arnhem and D-Day vividly reconstructs the epic WWII struggle for Crete – reissued with a new introductionNazi 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.

Antony Beevor

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Educated at Winchester and Sandhurst, he was a regular officer in the British army, which he left after five years of service and moved to Paris, where he wrote his first novel

His essays, translated into more than thirty languages and published in Spanish by Crítica, have been awarded several prizes, especially Stalingrad (2000), recipient of the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson History Prize, and the Hawthornden Prize, and Berlin: The Downfall, 1945 (2002), which has seen a dozen editions in Spanish

Other works include The Battle of Crete (2002), winner of the Runciman Prize, Paris After the Liberation (1944-1949) (2003), The Mystery of Olga Chekhova (2004), The Spanish Civil War (2005), A Writer at War: Vassily Grossman in the Russian Army, 1944-1945 (2006), and D-Day: The Battle of Normandy (2009)

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