Summary of Antony Beevor's Crete 1941

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The archaeologist John Pendlebury was one of the members of MI(R) sent to Greece and Albania in 1940. He was a romantic who had been interested in Greece since his time as curator at Knossos in the mid-1930s. #2 During the summer of 1940, Britain prepared for invasion, as the first skirmishes took place in the Western Desert. The Greek dictator, General Ioannis Metaxas, acutely aware of the threat from the Ita