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Battle on 42nd Street
War in Crete and the Anzacs' Bloody Last Stand
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At what point does the will to survive on the battlefield give way to bloodlust?
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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, along with 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.
This is military history at its best: deeply researched, powerfully told, and proving that the essence of war is men killing other men. - Joan Beaumont
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ISBN: 9781742236032
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 November 2019
Country: Australia
Imprint: NewSouth Publishing
Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 22.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 231.0mm
Weight: 400g
Pages: 288
About the Author
Peter Monteath is Professor of History at Flinders University in Adelaide. His best-known books are POW: Australian Prisoners of War in Hitler’s Reich (Macmillan 2011), and, most recently, Escape Artist: The Incredible Second World War of Johnny Peck.
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