As one George to another, Britain’s King cabled Greece’s last week a message of heartfelt condolence: “Britain shares the grief of the Greeks at the loss of Crete.” Britain’s grief was indeed ...
In May 1941, during the German invasion of Crete in World War II, Sergeant Alfred Clive Hume of New Zealand made a decision that would alter the survival of his battalion. As German Fallschirmjäger ...
The Fortress of Bir Hakeim served as one of the most important strongholds of the Free French Army against General Erwin Rommel’s Panzerarmee Afrika. In May 1942 around 3700 soldiers of the 1st Free ...