Crete, The Battle and the Resistance

1991, the first edition of Antony Beevor's history

Author

Antony Beevor

Publisher

John Murray, London, 1991

Printing Details

First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 24 × 16cm, 383pp.

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.

Condition

A good copy. There is some light fading to the spine and a little wear to the wrapper's edges. The wrapper has been neatly price-clipped. A previous owner's inscription has been whited out to the ffep. The main body of text is in very good order with clean pages and secure binding.