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Narrow Escapes of World War II episode 5: Death-defying tales from WWII. How legendary Major-General Robert ‘Lucky’ Laycock rallied his ill-equipped unit to see off a German attack on Crete. After the German invasion of Crete in May 1941, Winston Churchill orders the 25,000 British and Commonwealth troops stationed there to defend the island at all costs. A force of […]