| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 260 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Greece -- Crete.
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Crete (Greece) -- History -- Occupation, 1941-1945.
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Military campaigns |
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Greece -- Crete https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRBKr3fKPRjrf7mvYHbM |
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World War (1939-1945) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39Qhp4vBbhpRH9XvjbDFXtxhb |
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Occupation of Crete (Crete, Greece : 1941-1945) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39Qhp4vB9WRQhDY3Mw3tJfTGb |
| Chronological Term |
1939-1945 |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Added Title |
Battle on Forty-Second Street |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Monteath, Peter. Battle on 42nd Street. Sydney, N.S.W. : Newsouth, 2019 9781742236032 (OCoLC)1101620115 |
| ISBN |
9781742249186 (electronic bk.) |
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1742249183 (electronic bk.) |
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9781742244686 (electronic bk.) |
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1742244688 (electronic bk.) |
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9781742236032 |
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1742236030 |
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