Julie Peakman is an historian and author. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Honorary Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London. She lives in London and on Leros.

• IntroductionList of Illustrations Chapter One The Island of LerosChapter Two Behind Enemy LinesChapter ThreeDrop into Rhodes Chapter Four Troops to LerosChapter FiveFall of KosChapter Six Making PreparationsChapter Seven Waiting Under BombsChapter EightThe First Day of BattleChapter Nine Central CollisionChapter TenAnd the Fight Goes OnChapter ElevenInbound Royal West KentsChapter Twelve Tired, Hungry and LostChapter ThirteenFinal Day of BattleChapter Fourteen Surrender or EscapeChapter Fifteen The Rescuing PartiesChapter Sixteen Prisoners of War Chapter SeventeenThe German POW CampsChapter Eighteen Aftermath ConsiderationsChronologyGlossaryBibliographyIndex

Julie Peakman is an historian and author. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Honorary Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London. She lives in London and on Leros.

• IntroductionList of Illustrations Chapter One The Island of LerosChapter Two Behind Enemy LinesChapter ThreeDrop into Rhodes Chapter Four Troops to LerosChapter FiveFall of KosChapter Six Making PreparationsChapter Seven Waiting Under BombsChapter EightThe First Day of BattleChapter Nine Central CollisionChapter TenAnd the Fight Goes OnChapter ElevenInbound Royal West KentsChapter Twelve Tired, Hungry and LostChapter ThirteenFinal Day of BattleChapter Fourteen Surrender or EscapeChapter Fifteen The Rescuing PartiesChapter Sixteen Prisoners of War Chapter SeventeenThe German POW CampsChapter Eighteen Aftermath ConsiderationsChronologyGlossaryBibliographyIndex

Julie Peakman is an historian and author. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Honorary Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London. She lives in London and on Leros.

• IntroductionList of Illustrations Chapter One The Island of LerosChapter Two Behind Enemy LinesChapter ThreeDrop into Rhodes Chapter Four Troops to LerosChapter FiveFall of KosChapter Six Making PreparationsChapter Seven Waiting Under BombsChapter EightThe First Day of BattleChapter Nine Central CollisionChapter TenAnd the Fight Goes OnChapter ElevenInbound Royal West KentsChapter Twelve Tired, Hungry and LostChapter ThirteenFinal Day of BattleChapter Fourteen Surrender or EscapeChapter Fifteen The Rescuing PartiesChapter Sixteen Prisoners of War Chapter SeventeenThe German POW CampsChapter Eighteen Aftermath ConsiderationsChronologyGlossaryBibliographyIndex