Further Reading - The Battle for Crete

• The Battle for Crete
• Overview
• The Battle: Day 1-3
• The Battle: Day 4-6
• The Retreat
• The Evacuation
• The Army Says Thankyou
• The Capitulation
• The Aftermath
• The Controversies
• Related Book
• Further Reading
• About This Feature
• Image and Media Gallery
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Sources

The day by day information is mainly drawn from the official history of the New Zealand involvement in the battle: D. M. Davin, Crete, War Publications Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, N.Z., 1953. In May 1941 Davin was a second lieutenant in 23 Battalion and was wounded on Crete and evacuated to Egypt. [See digitised version of this publication on the New Zealand Electronic Text centre website.]

Other information comes from Ian McGibbon (ed), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Military History, OUP, Auckland, N.Z., 2000 and Megan Hutching (ed), 'A Unique Sort of Battle': New Zealanders Remember Crete, HarperCollins, Auckland, N.Z., 2001.

The photographs mostly come from the Alexander Turnbull Library's War History Collection, and can be found on their Timeframes website. The oral history extracts come from interviews recorded by Megan Hutching for 'A Unique Sort of Battle' and will be available at the Alexander Turnbull Library's Oral History Centre (contact: [email protected]).

Biographies

These biographies are available from the online Dictionary of New Zealand Biography website:

• Allen, Stephen Shepherd (1882–1964)
• Baker, Frederick (1908–1958)
• Davin, Daniel Marcus (1913–1990)
• Fraser, Peter (1884–1950)
• Freyberg, Bernard Cyril (1889–1963)
• Hargest, James (1891-1944)
• Hulme, Alfred Clive (1911–1982)
• Kippenberger, Howard Karl (1897–1957)
• Love, Eruera Te Whiti o Rongomai (1905–1942)
• Puttick, Edward (1890–1976)
• Upham, Charles Hazlitt (1908–1994)

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