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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.
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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.
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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 *
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 140885175X
- ISBN 13 9781408851753
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages304
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