The Fall of Crete - Couverture souple

Clark, Alan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0304353485 ISBN 13 : 9780304353484

Editeur : Cassell Military, 2001

Synopsis

The epic story of one of the most bitter and dramatic battles fought between German and Allied forces during the whole of the Second World War. The decisive action took place within five days, and twice its outcome hung in the balance. By the third day, the number of German dead exceeded their losses in all other theatres since the outbreak of hostilities. The German parachutists were confined for supply and reinforcements to a single airstrip at Maleme, yet on this one foothold they managed to land over eight thousand men, who defeated an Allied army nearly five times as numerous. With its vivid and compelling description of the battle for Crete, Clark confirmed his reputation as a military historian first recognised with The Donkeys, his account of the British Expeditionary Force in France in 1914.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Alan Clark, educated at Eton and Oxford, read for the Bar but did not practise. Tory MP for Plymouth Sutton 1972-1992; Kensington and Chelsea, 1997-99. Various junior ministerial appointments in the Margaret Thatcher and John Major governments of the 1980s. Best-known for his Diaries (three volumes) which The Times placed in the Samuel Pepys class. They were filmed by the BBC with John Hurt as Clark and Jenny Agutter as Jane Clark. Alan Clark died in 1999.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cassell Military
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0304353485
• ISBN 13: 9780304353484
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
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