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Churchill's Folly - The Battles for Kos and Leros, 1943 (Paperback)
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Churchill's Folly - The Battles for Kos and Leros, 1943 (Paperback)
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In autumn 1943 the Italian-held Dodecanese was the setting for the
last decisive German invasion of the Second World War - and the
last irreversible British defeat. After the Italian armistice that
followed the downfall of Mussolini, Churchill seized the
opportunity to open a new front in the eastern Mediterranean,
thereby increasing the pressure against Germany and hoping to
provide an incentive for Turkey to join the Allies. Rejected by the
Americans, it was a strategy fraught with difficulties and doomed
to fail. Spearheaded by the LRDG and SBS, British troops were
dispatched to the Aegean with naval units, but little or no air
cover. They were opposed by German assault troops with overwhelming
air superiority. Within 3 months, German forces had seized nearly
all of the Dodecanese, which was occupied until the end of the war.
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