Having said that, when I was on holiday on Crete a few years ago I bought a history of the 1941 invasion. Some of it was mind-boggling in terms of the heroism of the Islanders in the face of a well equipped enemy (this isn't intended to white-wash some of the savagery, mind you). One incident that stuck in my mind could have come straight out of the pages of a fictional comic story. The British Army, escorting the King of Greece down the Chania gorge to the west of the island, were desperately trying to get to British ships on the south of Crete and thence to Alexandria in Egypt. They were being hotly pursued by German troops. There is a road on the west of the island that weaves a southern route through the mountains. Roughly half way a flat, disc-like plateau opens up and the road follows the rim. Part of the road is formed by a bridge. A party of British soldiers put some strategically placed explosive on the bridge in order to halt, if only momentarily, the German advance. The only way that the British could detonate the explosive was to place two marksmen on the other side of the valley and set off the detonator with a rifle.
The fact that they succeeded, just as the Germans were approaching the bridge (they were that close!) is something straight out of the pages of The Victor.
Just thought I'd share that with you
) cover, it's not one that I have come across. Although the fighting in Crete was fierce, many of the stories have never graced a Victor comic, Annual or Summer Special, which is a shame as there were many many courageous soldiers that took place in that campaign on both sides.