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The Resource Battle on 42nd Street : war in Crete and the Anzacs' bloody last stand, Peter Monteath

Battle on 42nd Street : war in Crete and the Anzacs' bloody last stand, Peter Monteath

Label
Battle on 42nd Street : war in Crete and the Anzacs' bloody last stand
Title
Battle on 42nd Street
Title remainder
war in Crete and the Anzacs' bloody last stand
Statement of responsibility
Peter Monteath
Title variation
Battle on Forty-Second Street
Creator
Author
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
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 the most accomplished and best equipped forces Hitler could muster. On the morning of 27 May 1941, however, all that was about to change. When a unit of German mountain troops approached the Allies' defensive line - known as 42nd Street - men from the Australian 2/7th and 2/8th Battalions and New Zealanders from several battalions counter-attacked with fixed bayonets. By the end, German bodies were strewn across the battlefield. Acclaimed historian Peter Monteath draws on recollections and records of Australian, New Zealand, British and German soldiers and local Cretans to reveal the truth behind one of the bloodiest battles of the Second World War
Cataloging source
AU@
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Monteath, Peter
Dewey number
940.5412
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
  • portraits
  • plates
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Crete (Greece)
Label
Battle on 42nd Street : war in Crete and the Anzacs' bloody last stand, Peter Monteath
Instantiates
Publication
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
  • cri
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
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
Control code
000066176439
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
viii, 260 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9781742236032
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, maps, portraits
System control number
(OCoLC)1101620115
Label
Battle on 42nd Street : war in Crete and the Anzacs' bloody last stand, Peter Monteath
Publication
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
  • cri
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
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
Control code
000066176439
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
viii, 260 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9781742236032
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, maps, portraits
System control number
(OCoLC)1101620115

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