by Antony Beevor · Crítica · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788484323976
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«La batalla de Creta» is the historical essay by Antony Beevor, published by Crítica in paperback (414 pages, in Spanish).
In May 1941, after the invasion of Greece and Yugoslavia, Hitler ordered the occupation of Crete. Beevor reconstructs the German airborne campaign, the Allied resistance and the role of the Cretan civilian population, and explains why the fall of the island marked a turning point in the Second World War.
It belongs to the Memoria Crítica collection and includes a translation by Santiago Jordán Sempere. The work was awarded the Runciman Book Prize; it includes maps and historical photographs.
For fans of military history and Second World War studies seeking a decisive campaign documented with rigour.
Sir Antony James Beevor is a British military historian. He has published several popular historical works, mainly on the Second World War, the Spanish Civil War, and most recently the Russian Revolution and the Russian Civil War.
