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

Book 20 of 33: Bloomsbury Studies in Military History

Stroud, Rick

  • 3.62 out of 5 stars
    117 ratings by Goodreads
 
9781408851753: Kidnap in Crete: The True Story of the Abduction of a Nazi General
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 140885175X ISBN 13: 9781408851753
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2014

Synopsis

On a moonlit night in April 1944 a small band of partisans, led by the British SOE agent Patrick Leigh Fermor, kidnapped the Nazi general in charge of the German-occupied island of Crete and spirited him away to captivity in Egypt. Drawing on unprecedented access to the testimony of Cretan guerrillas, SOE papers and Fermor's own account, this book tells the full story of this daring raid, the epic drive across the island, and the devastating reprisals that followed.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

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.

Review

An exhilarating account of Paddy's hair-raising kidnapping of a Nazi general that was ultimately of dubious strategic value * Spectator * A rollicking outsider's account, written with great verve and dash, containing much telling new material, some of which is gathered from previously untapped Cretan sources ... Examines these matters at length and provides what is probably the fullest, most fluent record of the kidnap yet written, while giving the Cretan partisans a more central role than they have received in any account since that of Psychoundakis * William Dalrymple, New Statesman * A proper ripping yarn with a great adventure at its heart * Daily Express * Fascinating ... It's a great tale of derring-do but Stroud also considers the consequences for the Cretans themselves * Louise Doughty, Metro * Told with clarity, humour and precision * The Times on THE PHANTOM ARMY OF ALAMEIN * A fascinating study of how the most unlikely characters became heroes * Independent on Sunday on THE PHANTOM ARMY OF ALAMEIN *

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
140885175X
ISBN 13 
9781408851753
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
304
Rating
  • 3.62 out of 5 stars
    117 ratings by Goodreads

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9781408851791: Kidnap in Crete: The True Story of the Abduction of a Nazi General

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  1408851792 ISBN 13:  9781408851791
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2015
Softcover