During the Battle of Crete in May 1941, women not only joined in the fight against the invading German paratroopers, they tended the wounded, buried the dead and provided food and supplies for their men and Allied soldiers on the battlefields. During the harsh four-year German occupation, women of Crete sheltered and cared for Australian, New Zealand and British soldiers “on the run”, and participated in resistance activities. They gathered intelligence, provided communication support, carried food, supplies and weapons to resistance fighters and at times took up arms, all this while under the constant threat of reprisal executions. At the same time, they maintained their roles as carers and providers – raising children, making clothes, baking bread, tending goats and sheep, planting and harvesting crops – providing everything needed “more or less out of their own hands”.