Antony Beevor: Crete
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- Kategoria: yhteiskunta & politiikka, alakategoria: maanpuolustus
- Materiaali: Isokokoinen pokkari
- Kustantaja: Hodder & Stoughton
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780719568312
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- Katseltu: 168 krt
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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 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.