Mr. Kentz holds history degrees from Georgetown University and King’s College, London. His work has appeared in American History and Military History, and he has appeared on the World War II podcast “We Have Ways of Making You Talk” with James Holland and Al Murray. He currently is an attorney in Washington, D.C.

Articles by Peter Kentz

May 1941: Unterhehmen Merkur—Operation Mercury, the German invasion of Crete—commences as Luftwaffe aircraft launch their assault on the strategically vital island, perched between the Axis-controlled Aegean and the Allied-controlled eastern Mediterranean.

Force C from Crete

By Peter Kentz
June 2025
As Axis aircraft relentlessly rained hell from above, the Royal Navy’s Mediterranean Fleet held on doggedly to thwart the German seaborne invasion of Crete in May 1941.