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Kidnap in Crete: The True Story of the Abduction of a Nazi General

Autor Rick Stroud
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 mai 2015
This is the story of how a small SOE unit led by Patrick Leigh Fermor kidnapped a German general on the Nazi-occupied island of Crete in 1944. For thirty-two days, they were chased across the mountains as they headed for the coast and a rendezvous with a Royal Navy launch waiting to spirit the general to Cairo. Rick Stroud, whose Phantom Army of Alamein won plaudits for its meticulous research and its lightness of touch in the telling, brings these same gifts to bear in this new project. From the adrenalin rush of the kidnapping, to the help provided by the Cretan partisans and people, he explains the overall context of Crete's role in World War Two and reveals the devastating consequences of this mission for them all.There have been other accounts - notably Ill Met By Moonlight by William Stanley Moss (Leigh Fermor's second in command), which was later made into a Powell and Pressburger film, starring Dirk Bogarde - but Kidnap in Crete is the first book to draw on all the sources, notably those in Crete as well as SOE files and the accounts, letters and private papers of its operatives in London and Edinburgh.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781408851791
ISBN-10: 1408851792
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 1 x 16pp B&W plate section
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

For fans of Operation Mincemeat by Ben MacIntyre, Crete: The Battle and the Resistance by Anthony Beevor and Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper

Notă biografică

Rick Stroud is the author of The Phantom Army of Alamein: The Men Who Hoodwinked Rommel and The Book of the Moon. He is also the author, with Victor Gregg, of Rifleman: A Front Line Life from Alamein and Dresden to the Fall of the Berlin Wall and King's Cross Kid: A London Childhood Between the Wars. He lives in Chelsea, London.

Recenzii

A wonderful book: charming, fascinating . There are few better accounts of this epic desert struggle . A gem of a book and a classic of its kind
Told with clarity, humour and precision
A fascinating study of how the most unlikely characters became heroes