A war within a war. All WW II buffs and Greeks must have at this price. This title is being offered not by a professional book seller, but rather by a life-long collector reducing his library in connection with estate planning. Please note that international orders are discouraged as shipping costs are uneconomical and rarely closed. Listed international shipping is likely to be much too low. In general, international shipping rates start around $40 USD, and errors are often committed in the ABE auto listing.

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Bibliographic Details

Title: The Ariadne Objective: The Underground War to Rescue Crete from the Nazis
Publisher: Crown
Publication Date: 2013
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0307460134
ISBN 13: 9780307460134
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: As New

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Synopsis

A committed band of partisans were a thorn in the side of the German occupiers of Crete from May 1941, with an unlikely group of British spies organizing, orchestrating and supplying them. This book tells the story of the operatives, including future travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor, John Pendlebury and Xan Fielding, who lived in the Cretan mountains for years conducting sabotage operations culminating in the abduction of the German commanding officer. American-cut pages.

About the Author

WES DAVIS served for two years as an assistant to the director of excavations at Kavousi in Eastern Crete, not far from the plateau where Patrick Leigh Fermor parachuted onto the island during WWII. He holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from Princeton University and is a former assistant professor of English at Yale University. Editor of the Harvard University Press Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry, he has written for publications that include the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and The Nation.

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I am not a professional book seller. Rather, I am a retired person who has collected thousands of books over a long life. At the end of this long life it is time to reduce and simplify in number and quality most of my personal possessions. All books I intend to list are As New, most are first editions, and many are signed. They have been properly treated and stored and are all from my collection. A very few, clearly marked, do not fit into that description but no book offered for sale will diminish the quality of a collection or store offering.

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Stephen Lewis
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