In the late spring of 1941 the German juggernaut was still rolling across Europe, and had recently conquered Yugoslavia and Greece—and set its eyes on the more than forty thousand British, ...

Crete 1941: Germany’s lightning airborne assault. New York: Osprey Publishing, 2012. Kavanaugh, Stephen. Hitler's Malta Option: A Comparison Of The Invasion Of Crete (Operation Merkur) And The ...

Early on May 20, 1941, thousands of German paratroopers, known as Fallschirmjägers, in hundreds of transport planes and gliders were preparing to assault the Greek island of Crete. It was the first ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- The Will County Sheriff's Department confirmed it has identified "two people of interest" in the case of a home invasion and the murder of a Crete grocery store owner, Francisco ...

In the centre of a sweltering, cavernous hall, rows of men sit in silence with nothing to occupy them but the wait. Signs from an old tourist fair propped up behind them urge visitors to "Explore the ...