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The Lost Garrison Of Crete
200 Greek Soldiers Who Refused Surrender and Conducted Guerrilla Operations From Mountain Strongholds Until 1945
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The island fell in eleven days.
They stayed for four years.
In the summer of 1941, as the last boats left the shores of Crete and the German occupation settled over the island like a shroud, two hundred Greek soldiers turned their backs on the sea and walked into the White Mountains. No orders. No supply lines. No promise that anyone would remember them.
What they built in those limestone heights, through four winters of hunger and cold and the constant presence of death, was something that has no simple name. It was not merely a resistance. It was a refusal, sustained daily, against everything that said surrender was the only rational answer.
This is their story, told in full for the first time.
Drawn from military archives, wartime notebooks, and the testimonies of the men themselves, The Lost Garrison of Crete is a book about what human beings are capable of when stripped to the bone, when the mountains are the only thing left between them and the end of everything they chose to defend.
Some men make history. These men simply held their ground.
And the mountains held them back.
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