North Coast star history student is about to embark on his own Greek odyssey - but the heroes he will be remembering are not ...

Attempts to move elderly residents can be deeply distressing for their families too, says Cooper. She introduces me to the ...

Princess Anne arrived in Greece on Friday for a three-day visit to the country to commemorate the 85th anniversary of the Battle of Crete during World War II. Accompanied by her husband, Vice Admiral ...

Eighty-five years ago this week, one of the most dramatic and brutal battles of the Second World War took place on the island of Crete. In May 1941, a mixed force of New Zealand, British, Australian, ...

In May 1941, Germany launched the Battle of Crete, the largest airborne assault the world had ever seen. Thousands of paratroopers and glider troops descended on the island expecting a rapid victory.

In May 1941, Hitler launched a bold experiment, take the island of Crete using only airborne troops. Over 500 transport planes, thousands of paratroopers, and glider teams were hurled at the island in ...

Crete awoke on May 20, 1941, under the shadow of thousands of German paratroopers falling from the sky. It was the first large-scale airborne invasion in history, which unfolded into a harrowing and ...

Persians, Spartans, Leonidas, Xerxes, Ephialtes… Everyone has heard these names and can place them—more or less—in the 5th century BCE, when the Battle of Thermopylae took place. It was one of the key ...