THE FALL OF CRETE

Author: Alan Clark

Publisher: New English Library

Year published: 1974

Pagination: 205pp, photos, maps

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Mass market paperback. Crease on front cover, pages browning. Good. The story of one of the most epic battles fought between German and Allied forces during the Second World War. The decisive action took place within five days and by the third, the number of German dead exceeded their losses in all other theatres since the outbreak of hostilities. The German parachutists were confined for supply and reinforcements to a single airstrip at Maleme, yet on this one foothold they managed to land over eight thousand men, who defeated an Allied army nearly five times as numerous.