The Battle of Crete was a big-time screw-up. Evelyn Waugh describes it in his “Sword of Honour” trilogy.
It takes a special kind of guy to go through that, plus a bunch of German P.O.W. camps, and come out cheerful on the other side.
> The Battle of Crete was a big-time screw-up. Evelyn Waugh describes it in his “Sword of Honour” trilogy.
Have you read “The Mark of the Lion”, biography of Charles Upham VC with Bar, by Kenneth L Sanford? Highly recommended. Covers the Crete fiasco brilliantly (Upham was awarded his first VC for Valor there, his second in North Africa).
Soon to be a movie. Rumored to star Russell Crowe (hope not!) as Upham. Filming starts in NZ soon.
*DieHard*