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The Fall of Crete
Alan Clark The Germans invaded mainland Greece in April 1941 .It took them only three weeks to drive out the British and their allies, and take 11,000 prisoners; three more weeks, and they launched an all-out airborne assault on the now strategically important island of Crete. German casualties ran high, but the attack was constantly and aggressively reinforced. In a few days of bitter fighting they had captured the island, stolen from a numerically superior but ill-prepared and disorganised enemy. Ignominious evacuation by the Royal Navy, with heavy losses, and four years of traumatic occupation followed. Alan Clark, the historian, politician and diarist, tells the story with characteristic clarity and concision. It was a major disaster for the British, Commonwealth and Greek troops on the island, not least for those left behind to fend for them- selves or be taken prisoner, a disaster relieved only by the courage and tenacity of the men on the ground.
215 pp - hardback - Published 2001
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