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, ...

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 ...

In May 1941, Germany launched the Battle of Crete, the largest airborne assault the world had ever seen. Thousands of paratroopers and glider troops descended on the island expecting a rapid victory.

Operation Mercury became Germany’s bold airborne invasion of Crete, but victory came at a terrible cost. Paratroopers, Allied defenders, and armed civilians fought for airfields and villages in a ...