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Penguin Books, 2006. Softcover (15 x 23 cm), 288 pages, with bibliography, notes, appendices and index. ISBN: 0143020307. Very Good condition. Creased, most notably front bottom corner. "An incredible story of courage, survival and loyalty amongst men trapped on an enemy-occupied island in the middle of a war - told in full for the first time. When the order to surrender was given after the Battle of Crete in 1941, over 6,000 Australian, British and New Zealand soldiers were left behind on the south coast. Some escaped immediately on abandoned naval barges or took to the hills. But the vast majority was marched back over the White Mountains to makeshift POW camps. Many escaped, relying on Cretan mountain villagers to shelter and guide them. The relationships forged between these troops and their Cretan helpers are remembered to this day. Drawing on previously unpublished memoirs, including a detailed diary kept by co-author Ian Frazer's Australian officer father, 'On The…
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On the Run: Anzac Escape and Evasion in Enemy-Occupied Crete Paperback - 2006
by Sean Damer
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- Title On the Run: Anzac Escape and Evasion in Enemy-Occupied Crete
- Author Sean Damer
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Edition Unstated
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, Auckland, New Zealand
- Date January 2006
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780143020301 / 0143020307
- Library of Congress subjects Escaped prisoners of war - Greece - Crete, Escaped prisoners of war - New Zealand
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006386157
- Dewey Decimal Code 940.547
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