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BATTLE FOR CRETE: New Zealand's Near-Run Affair 1941

BATTLE FOR CRETE: New Zealand's Near-Run Affair 1941
BATTLE FOR CRETE: New Zealand's Near-Run Affair 1941
BATTLE FOR CRETE: New Zealand's Near-Run Affair 1941
BATTLE FOR CRETE: New Zealand's Near-Run Affair 1941
BATTLE FOR CRETE: New Zealand's Near-Run Affair 1941
BATTLE FOR CRETE: New Zealand's Near-Run Affair 1941
BATTLE FOR CRETE: New Zealand's Near-Run Affair 1941
BATTLE FOR CRETE: New Zealand's Near-Run Affair 1941
BATTLE FOR CRETE: New Zealand's Near-Run Affair 1941
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Title: BATTLE FOR CRETE: New Zealand's Near-Run Affair 1941
Author(s): WRIGHT, Matthew
ISBN: 9780790007328
Category: New Zealand - War & Military
New / Used: Used
Book Type: Medium Softcover
Published: 2000
Published By: Reed Books
Edition: Reprinted 2003
Pages: 131
Size (mm): 215 w x 235 h x 10 d

Condition

Excellent with light wear/crease on covers, marks on end paper, pages clean. Images depict all need to know detail.

About

Brigadier James Hargest was a decorated New Zealand officer who served during World War I and II.

Having fought in the bloody battles of the Invasion of Crete, he went on to lead the 5th Brigade in the Western Desert during Operation Crusader but was captured soon into the campaign. Never one to take a defeat lying down Hargest, determined to escape his Italian Prisoner of War camp "Campo 12", this journey and its adventures are recounted here in this book of his journey to Switzerland and freedom.

Illustrated throughout with monochrome images and maps.

Remarks

Scarce in this edition
See our other hardcover edition also listed.

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