Battle on 42nd Street : war in Crete and the Anzacs' bloody last stand /
At what point does the will to survive on the battlefield give way to bloodlust? The battle for Crete was at once the most modern and the most ancient of wars. For a week Australian and New Zealand forces were relentlessly hammered from the skies by the Luftwaffe and pursued across Crete by some of...
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Sydney :
Newsouth Publishing,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- 1. The bayonet: A short, sharp history
- 2. Ordinary men
- 3. Anzacs in Greece
- 4. Operation Merkur
- 5. Assembling Creforce
- 6. The fight for Maleme
- 7. Counter-attack at Maleme
- 8. The struggle for Galatas
- 9. Battle on 42nd Street
- 10. Charge!
- 11. In cold blood
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Photo sources
- Notes
- Index.