The German invasion of Crete in 1941 and the ensuing struggle between German and British forces was one of the most dramatic and exciting battles of the Second World War. Now, using previously top-secret sources, historian Callum MacDonald has written a gripping narrative of the bloody battle that was one of World War II's darkest moments. When the invasion began, with hundreds of Nazis descending from the clouds upon entrenched British troops, it seemed Germany had the upper hand. It was the first time in history that paratroopers fell from the sky, ushering in a terrifying new form of warfare. MacDonald recreates the horror experienced by the British at the prospect of this innovation, and describes as well the process by which the German developed it, and the sense of promise their side held for it. Yet it was precisely in combatting this new tactic that the British achieved a brilliant intelligence coup. Intercepting plans for the Nazi attack, they prepared a trap that made Crete a vast graveyard for the elite German airborne force. Churchill's greatest hope was to dash the legend that the Germans were invincible. At this point in the baffle, that dream seemed attainable. The Germans suffered greater losses in the baffle for Crete than in the entire Balkan campaign. An expert storyteller, MacDonald vividly weaves together history and the human drama of individuals on each side of the battle, from the relentless and stubborn German commander Kurt Student, to the British World War I hero Brigadier General Freyberg. He shows how misjudgments on both sides led simultaneously to British disaster and to a hollow victory for the Nazis. Despite their devastating losses, the Nazis nevertheless defeated the British forces on the island. Although their intelligence was strong, the British were militarily unprepared. Callum MacDonald tells this compelling story as a lesson in the perils of unpreparedness and the unpredictable outcomes of even the best strategies.

Lost Battle: Crete 1941

History

MACDONALD

Americas

Free Press

(Strength and limitations of the of the subsistence farming system and provides an informed insight into the inevitability of future famine if present-day policies are continued)

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Business & Money

Industries

Routledge

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McGraw=Hill

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GOUL

Pearson Professional Education

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Oxford University Press

Palliative medicine is the medical care provided for people who have a life limiting illness or condition. It encompasses both the physical symptoms a person may experience but also the psychosocial, emotional, and ethical issues that may arise. Now in its fourth edition, Palliative Medicine: A Case-Based Manual walks clinicians through the management of the most common situations found in palliative medicine, from diagnosis and managing symptoms through to grief and bereavement. Using real patient case scenarios and an easy-to-read question and answer format, it gives students and medical professionals an accessible, evidence-based entryway to gain the skills and knowledge needed to provide high quality palliative and end of life care to patients and their families. This new edition has been fully updated to cover the latest guidance, including new chapters dedicated to medical cannabis, opioids, grief and bereavement, and wider issues including palliative care in the community, structurally vulnerable populations, and public health. Written by over 50 experienced palliative care clinicians and educators, this book will be a welcome guide for palliative care workers, medical and nursing students, and medical professionals of any specialty where palliative needs might arise.

Palliative Medicine: A Case-Based Manual

Medical Books

BOYLE

Herx

Nursing

The New Grove Early Romantic Masters 2: Berlioz, Weber, Mendelssohn (New Grove Composer Biography)

The New Grove Early Romantic Masters 2: Berlioz, Weber, Mendelssohn

Science & Math

Macmillan

Online Instructor's Resource Manual to Accompany Biogeography

Earth Sciences

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

A study of how women figured in public reaction to the church from New Testament times to the second century CE. MacDonald shows the conviction of pagan writers that female initiative was central to Christianity's development, and the belief that women inclined toward excesses in religion. Concern in the New Testament and early Christian texts about the respectability of women is seen in a new light when one appreciates that outsiders focused on early church women and their activities as a reflection of the group as a whole.

Early Christian Women Pagan Opinion

World

Cambridge University Press

Large 8vo. xiv, 446 pp, list of maps and illustrations, author's foreword and acknowledgments, I. All in the Day's Work; II. Strangers in a Strange Land; III. The Long Slog; IV. The Road to Flanders; V. Epitaph; bibliography, author's note, index. First Edition, 1988. Red half-cloth with black paper-covered board, gilt lettering to spine, and map on endpapers. " In this book, the author lets the British soldiers of 1914 tell their own moving, and often tragic, stories. His research has uncovered a wealth of eyewitness accounts and new or little-known material -- letters, diaries, official papers and reports -- which she has woven together into an engrossing and moving picture of what it was like tobe a soldier in the British Army in 1914." from the jacket flap.

1914

Military

Scribner

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