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 .
Newsouth Pub. Battle on 42nd street: war in crete and the anzacs' bloody last stand, paperback/peter monteath
