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

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Label

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

Title remainder

war in Crete and the Anzacs' bloody last stand

Statement of responsibility

Peter Monteath

Title variation

Battle on Forty-Second Street

Creator

• Monteath, Peter

Author

• Monteath, Peter

Subject

• Crete (Greece) -- History -- Occupation, 1941-1945
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Greece | Crete

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@

Dewey number

940.5412

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• portraits
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography