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Language: en
Pages: 368
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-03 - Publisher: New York Review of Books
George Psychoundakis was a twenty-one-year-old shepherd from the village of Asi Gonia when the battle of Crete began: “It was in May 1941 that, all of a sudde
Language: en
Pages: 0
Pages: 0
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Penguin World War II Collection
George Psychoundakis was a young shepherd boy who knew the island of Crete intimately when the Nazis invaded by air in 1941. He immediately joined the resistanc
Language: en
Pages: 335
Pages: 335
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Paul Dry Books
"During the Second World War, Xan Fielding served for two years as an officer in the British Special Operations Executive on German-occupied Crete, where he ran
Language: en
Pages: 240
Pages: 240
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-03 - Publisher: New York Review of Books
One of the most daring feats in Patrick Leigh Fermor’s daring life was the kidnapping of General Kreipe, the German commander in Crete, on April 26, 1944. Abd
Language: en
Pages: 304
Pages: 304
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-05-05 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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 da