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Crete's invasion by German paratroopers in 1941 became and remains the role model for all airborne military operations in the twentieth century. Crete was a military centre with major naval strategic importance, and the Allies had expected an Axis seaborne invasion to capture it. Instead, an elite attack force of crack airborne troops, followed by transport aircraft, took the island in hours and the Luftwaffe's dominance of skies ensured that no Allied naval retaliation was possible. This book explains the organisation of the operation and proceeds to document with first hand accounts from actual participants in the invasion force each step of the battle.
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful treatment of the airborne assault on Crete,
By Bor (Amsterdam) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fallschirmjager in Crete, 1941: The Merkur Operation (Hardcover)
This book is a very beautiful book. But it's also a bit of a mixed bag to me. I guess I need to explain this, and also why the book still got five stars from me.
Well, first of all it's a book about the invasion of Crete. But it doesn't show pictures of the German mountain troops that were involved, these just have to make do with some mentioning in the text. The pictures focus completely on the Fallschirmjäger, though the Allies do get their share of attention. This may be a bit of a let-down, but the book doesn't claim to give a full treatment of the campaign, it deals with the German Airborne troops and their part in the invasion. Secondly most Histoire and Collection books I own show real uniforms in colour. But you won't find any here. The book is filled with wartime black and white photographs, and the colour bits are limited to some photo's of wartime documents and a few maps. Despite all that I still think the book is very successful in what it tries to do. After a short introduction, explaining why the invasion took place the book moves on to giving the bigger picture of the operation and then quickly goes on to describe events at the assorted landing areas. The text consists for a large part of eye-witness accounts, which makes vivid reading. But nearly all of them are from German airborne troops. There are very few Allied accounts. What makes things special to me is that the pictures really support the text and the accounts, because they show the people that are mentioned. This is something that's lacking in many other books and makes this title stand out. To round it off the final pages give the Orders of Battle of the forces that participated. All in all this title is recommended to anyone with an interest in Fallschirmjäger and/or the invasion of Crete.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent book about the German paratroop forces.,
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This review is from: Fallschirmjager in Crete, 1941: The Merkur Operation (Hardcover)
This is an excellent book about the Fallschirmjager which would make a good substitute for the Ryton book of the same name or shelf buddy.
Typical Heimdal style with lots of good quality photos and informative text.
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4.7 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews) 13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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Great Photo Book,
By D. Schafer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Fallschirmjager in Crete, 1941: The Merkur Operation (Hardcover)
Another great large format photo book from "Histoire & Collections". As the title states, it covers the battle for Crete mainly from the German perspective through personal narratives of the participants and hundreds of photos of German paratroopers and equipment. This is not a "textbook" of the battle, but rather a collection of photos and personal experiences with enough tactical information and maps included to understand the conflict. A must for anyone interested in the Fallschirmjager.
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CRETE-KRETA: LAST HURRAH FOR THE FALLSCHIRMJAGER,
By Kay's Husband - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Fallschirmjager in Crete, 1941: The Merkur Operation (Hardcover)
I have had my 'eye' on this book for several years, but not until recently did the price get down low enough for me to invest. While the book is very good to excellent, I would not suggest this be the only book on this battle on one's WWII library shelf; I have a couple other hardcovers as well, one by George Forty and another by Allan Clark. Should you want to add this book to your home library, be prepared for an oversized book with some weight to it, since the pages are all heavy grade, slick paper. I do much of my reading in bed after 9pm and a book of this immensity can get quite heavy. I've only alloted 4-stars to this book because in the translation some places in the text read uneven and there also exist some words mispelled. Add to that the manner in which the pictures are laid out, the descriptions of the pictures are sometimes hard to locate. And though I read much military history, I am hardly an expert on the German Army with all its nomenclature, so some of the abbreviations accompanying the photos go beyond my knowledge. Now for the good parts and pluses: overall the book is laid out very well, and from my experience the photos are pretty much new, at least never seen before by me. I have no other books from Histoire Collections Press in my extensive WWII library, but am impressed by what I see. Would not be hesitant to invest in others of their WWII volumes. Another minus to this book, however, is the photos are in black and white, shot no doubt by German cameras of the time by amateur photographers, which in some cases does not allow the best field of wide-angle view of the subjects. But on-the-other-hand, because these are amateur photos the reader will get more everyday genre pictures rather than posed pictures such as those from say, SIGNAL magazine, the official archive keeper of the WWII Wehrmacht. (Should a reader be interested in such photos from SIGNAL please refer to THEIR WAR: GERMAN COMBAT PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE ARCHIVES OF SIGNAL. Pages 50 through 71 offer photos from Greece and N. Africa, with pages 57 through 61 showing some shots of the actual jump into Crete.) Just be prepared for a pretty much all black and white experience as other than a few photos of 'books' or 'papers' there are no COLOR photos included, and color did exist at the time. I found that strange as I expected at least a few color exposures, maybe you will not. The cover shows a group of men in color, however, the same photo inside the book is in black and white. Again, this book is a very excellent addition to the WWII material available on Crete-Kreta in April and May, 1941. But again, I would not suggest it as the only book you might want to have. But it is very interesting in itself due the overall manner of layout and the major fact that the photos are from fallschirmjagers who were there, and their picutres are generally not to to be found elsewhere. Semper Fi. 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Fallschirmjagers in Crete,
By standagard "standagard" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Fallschirmjager in Crete, 1941: The Merkur Operation (Hardcover)
This book is a fantastic resource for anyone researching the Fallschirmjagers and the battle for Crete. The author includes many, many photos from his personal collection making this book visually rich. A handful of color photos provide some idea of uniform colors for collectors and wargamers as well.
The translation from the original French is not very well done; however, I have not found a poorly translated phrase or word that results in a failure to understand the author's meaning. |
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