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==Further reading== ;Books {{refbegin}} * {{cite book |title=The Hutchinson Atlas of World War II Battle Plans: Before and After |last=Badsey |first=Stephen |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=2000 |isbn=978-1-57958-265-4 |location=London}} * {{cite book |title=Freyberg: Churchill's Salamander |last1=Barber |first1=Laurie |last2=Tonkin-Covell |first2=John |publisher=Hutchinson |year=1990 |isbn=978-1-86941-052-0 |location=London}} * {{cite book |title=Crete: The Battle and the Resistance |last=Beevor |first=Antony |publisher=Penguin Books |year=1991 |isbn=978-0-14-016787-0 |location=London |ref=none}} * {{cite book |title=The Royal Navy and the Mediterranean: November 1940 β December 1941 |last=Brown |first=David |publisher=Whitehall History in association with Frank Cass |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-7146-5205-4 |series=Whitehall Histories |volume=II |location=London |ref=none}} * {{cite book |title=[[The Second World War (book series)|The Second World War]]: The Grand Alliance |last=Churchill |first=Winston Spencer |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |year=1985 |isbn=978-0-395-41057-8 |volume=III |location=New York |author-link=Winston Churchill}} * {{cite book |title=The Fall of Crete |last=Clark |first=Alan |publisher=Anthony Blond |year=1989 |isbn=978-960-226-090-6 |location=London |orig-date=1962}} * {{cite book |url=https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2Maor.html |title=28 Maori Battalion |last=Cody |first=J. F. |publisher=Historical Publications Branch |year=2004 |edition=New Zealand Electronic Text Centre [online] |series=The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939β1945 |oclc=173284168 |orig-date=1956 |access-date=5 November 2015 |place=Wellington |archive-date=25 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151025142818/http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2Maor.html |url-status=live}} * {{cite book |title=Operation Mercury: Airmen in the Battle of Crete |last=Comeau |first=M. G. |date=2000 |publisher=J & K. H. Publishing |isbn=978-1-900511-79-7}} * {{cite book |title=Vasili: The Lion of Crete |last=Elliot |first=Murray |date=1992 |publisher=Century Hutchinson |others=London, Australia, South Africa |isbn=978-960-226-348-8 |edition=Greek pbk. Efstathiadis Group |orig-date=1987 |place=New Zealand}} * {{cite book |title=Forgotten Anzacs: The Campaign in Greece, 1941 |last=Ewer |first=Peter |publisher=Scribe |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-921215-29-2 |location=Carlton North, Vic. |oclc=457093199}} * {{cite book |title=Airborne: World War II Paratroopers in Combat |last=Guard |first=Julie |date=2007 |publisher=Osprey |isbn=978-1-84603-196-0}} * {{cite book |title=Crete 1941, Eyewitnessed |last1=Hadjipateras |first1=Costas |last2=Fafalios |first2=Maria |publisher=Efstathiadis Group |year=1989 |isbn=978-960-226-184-2}} * {{cite book |title=The Fortress Crete 1941β1944 The Secret War 1941β1944: Espionage and Counter-Espionage in Occupied Crete |last=Harokopos |first=George |date=1993 |publisher=Seagull |others=English translation: B. Giannikos |isbn=978-960-7296-35-1 |edition=Greek paperback |editor=Spilios Menounos}} * {{cite book |title=An Abridged History of the Greek-Italian and Greek-German War, 1940β1941 (Land Operations) |publisher=Army History Directorate Editions |year=1997 |isbn=978-960-7897-01-5 |location=Athens |oclc=45409635 |author=Hellenic Army General Staff}} * {{cite book |title=Diggers and Greeks |last=Hill |first=Maria |date=2010 |publisher=UNSW Press |isbn=978-1-74223-014-6}} * {{cite book |title=The Hill: The Brutal Fight for Hill 107 in the Battle of Crete |last=Kershaw |first=Robert |date=2024 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-147-2864-52-9}} * {{cite book |title=Ten Days to Destiny: The Battle for Crete, 1941 |last=Kiriakopoulos |first=G. C. |date=1985 |isbn=978-0-380-70102-5}} * {{cite book |title=The Cretan Resistance 1941β1945: The Official British Report of 1945 Together with Comments by British Officers who took part in the Resistance |last=Kokonas M. D. |first=N. A. |date=1993 |isbn=978-960-85329-0-8 |editor-last=Leigh Fermor |editor-first=P. |edition=Greek pbk |place=London}} * {{cite book |title=Flowers of Rethymno: Escape from Crete |last=Lind |first=Lew |date=1991 |publisher=Kangaroo Press |isbn=978-0-86417-394-2}} * {{cite book |title=Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation 1941β44 |last=Mazower |first=Mark |date=1993 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-05804-8 |place=New Haven and London}} * {{cite book |title=Mediterranean Front |last=Moorehead |first=Alan |publisher=Hamish Hamilton |year=1941 |location=London |oclc=21896524 |author-link=Alan Moorehead}} * {{cite book |title=[[Ill Met By Moonlight]]: The Story of the Kidnapping of General Karl Kreipe, the German Divisional Commander in Crete |last=Stanley Moss |first=W. |date=1950 |publisher=MacMillan |oclc=1027344 |author-link=W. Stanley Moss |place=New York}} * {{cite book |title=Fallschirmjager in Crete, 1941: The Merkur Operation |last=Nasse |first=Jean-Yves |date=2002 |publisher=Histoire & Collections |isbn=978-2-913903-37-1}} * {{cite book |title=Silent Wings Savage Death: Saga of the 82nd Airborne's Glider Artillery in World War II |last=Nigl |first=Alfred |publisher=Graphic Publishers |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-882824-31-1 |location=Santa Ana, CA}} * {{cite book |title=The Battle of Crete |last=Palazzo |first=Albert |year=2007 |series=Australian Army Campaigns |publisher=Australian Military History Publications |isbn=978-0-9757669-1-0 |location=Canberra, Australia}} * {{cite book |title=[[The Cretan Runner]]: His History of the German Occupation |last=Psychoundakis |first=George |date=1991 |isbn=978-960-226-013-5 |language=Greek |orig-date=1955 |editor=Patrick Leigh Fermor |place=Athens |publisher=Efstathiadis Group}} * {{cite book |title=Operation Merkur. Die Eroberung der Insel Kreta im Mai 1941 |last=Richter |first=Heinz A. |date=2011 |publisher=Rutzen |isbn=978-3-447-06423-1 |language=de |trans-title=Operation Mercury. The Conquest of the Island Crete in May, 1941}} * {{cite book |url=https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2-23Ba.html |title=23 Battalion |last=Ross |first=A. |publisher=Historical Publications Branch |year=2004 |edition=New Zealand Electronic Text Centre [online] |series=The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939β1945 |oclc=173284126 |orig-date=1959 |access-date=5 November 2015 |place=Wellington |archive-date=28 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151028231606/http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2-23Ba.html |url-status=live}} * {{cite book |title=Op Mercury, The Fall of Crete 1941 |last=Sadler |first=John |date=2007 |publisher=Pen & Sword Books |isbn=978-1-84415-383-1}} * {{cite book |title=Crete |last=Saunders |first=Tim |publisher=Pen and Sword |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-84415-557-6 |location=Barnsley}} * {{cite book |title=Kampf um die ΓgΓ€is: die Kriegsmarine in den griechischen GewΓ€ssern 1941β1945 |last=Schenk |first=Peter |publisher=Mittler & Sohn |year=2000 |isbn=978-3-8132-0699-9 |language=de |trans-title=Battle for the Aegean Sea, the Navy in Greek waters 1941β1945}} * {{cite book |title=Battle for Crete |last=Spencer |first=John Hall |date=2008 |publisher=Pen and Sword |isbn=978-1-84415-770-9 |location=Barnsley}} * {{cite book |title=English history, 1914β1945 |url=https://archive.org/details/englishhistory1900tayl |url-access=registration |last=Taylor |first=A. J. P. |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1965 |isbn=978-0-19-821715-2 |series=[[Oxford History of England]] |author-link=A. J. P. Taylor |place=London}} * {{cite book |title=Crete 1941: The Battle at Sea |last=Thomas |first=D. A. |publisher=Andre Deutsch |year=1980 |edition=Greek pbk edition (in English): Efstathiadis Group, Athens |location=London |oclc=11023583 |orig-date=1972}} * {{cite book |title=Perilous Commitments: The Battle for Greece and Crete 1940β1941 |last=Willingham |first=Matthew |publisher=Spellmount |year=2005 |isbn=978-1-86227-236-1}} {{refend}} ;Websites<!--Are these legit?--> {{refbegin|30em}} * {{cite web |url=http://www.battleofpinkhill.org.nz/more.php |title=The Battle of Pink Hill |last=Power |first=Graham |publisher=Power Publishing |access-date=13 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100525152104/http://www.battleofpinkhill.org.nz/more.php |archive-date=25 May 2010 }} * {{cite web |url=http://anzacsat42ndstreet.co.nz/media/battle-at-42nd-street--graham-power.pdf |title=The ANZACs at 42nd Street |last=Power |first=Graham |publisher=Power Publishing |access-date=29 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160515075029/http://anzacsat42ndstreet.co.nz/media/battle-at-42nd-street--graham-power.pdf |archive-date=15 May 2016 }} {{refend}}
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