In May 1941, Germany launched the Battle of Crete, the largest airborne assault the world had ever seen. Thousands of ...

Events across Australia and New Zealand will mark the 85th anniversary of the Battle of Crete, as a Greek military delegation ...

Princess Anne will undertake an official visit to Greece on May 22 to participate in ceremonies for the anniversary of the ...

Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis was presented with a commemorative Australian coin marking 87 years since the Battle of Greece ...

The idea seemed outlandish; a full-fledged aerial invasion of an entire region had never been attempted before. Hitler’s high command was against what they considered an unfeasible and needless scheme ...

20/5/1941. Under the code name 'Operation Mercury', Germany begins the airborne invasion of Crete. But the Nazis' estimations for an easy victory prove wrong. A throwback to the legendary Battle of ...

“After twelve days of what has undoubtedly been the fiercest fighting in this war, it was decided to withdraw our forces from Crete. . . . Some 15,000 [of our] troops have been withdrawn to Egypt but ...

New York: Osprey Bloomsbury, 2024. Pp. 368. Illus., maps, peronsae, table, notes, biblio., index. $30.000. ISBN: 1472864557 The Battle for Crete was Decided on a Little Hill In standard Osprey style, ...