{"product_id":"the-lost-garrison-of-crete-200-greek-soldiers-who-refused-surrender-and-conducted-guerrilla-operations-from-mountain-strongholds-until-1945-9798233800719","title":"The Lost Garrison Of Crete: 200 Greek Soldiers Who Refused Surrender and Conducted Guerrilla Operations From Mountain Strongholds Until 1945","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Stavros Anagnostovellis-Dorn\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Max\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Max\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Wars \u0026amp; Conflicts - World War II - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe island fell in eleven days.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey stayed for four years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is their story, told in full for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawn from military archives, wartime notebooks, and the testimonies of the men themselves, \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Garrison of Crete\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome men make history. These men simply held their ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnd the mountains held them back.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Max","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47968607928471,"sku":"9798233800719","price":3233.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798233800719.webp?v=1782918754","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-lost-garrison-of-crete-200-greek-soldiers-who-refused-surrender-and-conducted-guerrilla-operations-from-mountain-strongholds-until-1945-9798233800719","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}