Some time ago I read Crete:The battle and the Resistance by Anthony Beavor.
A great book for those who want to have a good idea of what happened without having to read a pile of books and loose time in research something that the good author made for us.
It is really interesting though to conduct further reading and to find that all this info were scattered in various books that most of them give the story form the Allied point of view and most of all "round the corners" of any political sideshow and plots...
For a real "citizen" that will try to make a basic research and read on WWII will find that there were no good and bad guys, but also Nazis, communists, colonial powers, economic interests, money.
It is very frustrating for someone that has grown and educated in elementary school to find that things were not so innocent and heroic, not by the troops but from their leaders, who formed and broke alliances and there was no ideology involved at all.
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