Odin & Aesop
Interested in military history? Please join Join Bill Redman and Tony Faust two retired Marines as they review military history books and provide a unique look at how the book’s contents relate to current trends in military operations. Each episode provides a detailed book discussion along with some recommendations for related reading on the topic.”
Odin & Aesop
Crete 1941
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Bill Redman, Kevin Yeo & Tony Faust
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Season 5
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Episode 11
The island of Crete sits in the Eastern Mediterranean. In 1941 the Germans decided to seize Crete, “As a base for air warfare against Great Britain in the Eastern Mediterranean”. The elite paratroopers of Germany’s 7th Air Division were assigned to lead the attack. They would be reinforced by more troops arriving by sea and air. It was Germany’s biggest airborne operation of the war by far. The German attack started on May 20th, 1941. Approximately German 8,060 troops jumped into Crete or flew in by glider. Crete’s British, Australian, New Zealand, and Greek defenders knew the Germans were coming. Antony Beevor tells the story of what happened in “Crete 1941: The Battle and the Resistance”.