# Crete

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- Book: [Crete](https://www.bookquiver.com/antony-beevor/crete) ([Crete.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/antony-beevor/crete.md))
- Authors: [Antony Beevor](https://www.bookquiver.com/antony-beevor)
- Publisher: john_murray
- ISBN: 978-07-1956-831-2
- Published: 2015-10-22
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Acclaimed historian and best-selling author Antony Beevor vividly brings to life the epic struggles that took place in Second World War Crete - reissued with a new introduction. 'The best book we have got on Crete' Observer The Germans expected their airborne attack on Crete in 1941 - a unique event in the history of warfare - to be a textbook victory based on tactical surprise. They had no idea that the British, using Ultra intercepts, knew their plans and had laid a carefully-planned trap. It should have been the first German defeat of the war, but a fatal misunderstanding turned the battle round. Nor did the conflict end there. Ferocious Cretan freedom fighters mounted a heroic resistance, aided by a dramatic cast of British officers from Special Operations Executive.