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By the spring of 1941, the enemy had taken much of Southern Europe:
Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece, and with Italy in the Axis
it stood to dominate. The powerful British Naval Fleet and the
amassed allied infantry of Britain, New Zealand, Australia,
disposed Greeks, and the good people of Crete stood between the
Axis powers and total control of the Mediterranean. This is the
story of a soldier involved in the defence of Crete. The Luftwaffe
commanded the air with their Stuka, Junkers and the formidable
German Paratroopers: the Fallschirmj�ger. It begins with Jack
Seed's part, as a Royal Engineer, in the Balkan Campaign of 1941\.
Starting with an account of the defence of Crete, it tells of the
retreat from an overpowering enemy and of a determined survival
until the victorious moments of the war's end. Along with his
comrades, Jack was taken prisoner of war and moved from Stalag to
Stalag in railway trucks, enduring terrible hardships at the hands
of his German captors for four years. With barely enough food to
keep body and soul together, he and his fellow captives were sent
out in gangs to work, often in perishingly cold conditions. They
devised ways of getting extra food, but their schemes were often
discovered by the German guards. They burnt the wood from their
bunks in order to keep warm at night. They grew weak and weary and
wondered how much more hardship they could stand. But finally,
Hitler was dead, Germany had surrendered and the war was over.
Within days, Jack was bound for home, flying over the white cliffs
of Dover. He had survived. Jack Seed wrote his Second World War
memoir during the 1970s, typing two copies for posterity on a
mechanical typewriter. Like many with such experiences, his writing
was not for any notion of reward, but to formalise his own lasting
experience of the Second World War. Now, almost eighty years later,
that story is shared.
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