Kos and Leros 1943: The German Conquest of the Dodecanese (Marketing campaign)

An illustrated account of the disastrous British-led effort to occupy the Dodecanese in autumn 1943.

This title is an illustrated account of the autumn 1943 battle for the Dodecanese, as Winston Churchill tried to safe the Aegean islands within the wake of the Italian armistice. The occupation was a bet meant to extend stress towards Germany and on the identical time presumably present encouragement for Turkey to hitch the Allies. Spearheaded by the Particular Boat Squadron and the Lengthy Vary Desert Group, garrison troops had been deployed to the Italian-occupied Dodecanese, however they had been too late to forestall the Germans from taking management of the important thing island of Rhodes and its all-important airfields. An all-out German offensive adopted. Air drive and naval items supported a collection of assaults by infantry and paratroopers, together with specialist forces of the Division Brandenburg. Inside three months, solely Castelorizzo was nonetheless in British palms. Rhodes, Kos and Leros remained underneath German occupation till Might 1945 and the tip of the warfare in Europe. The Dodecanese can be Adolf Hitler’s final enduring victory – and the final enduring British-led defeat.