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Abducting a General - the Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete

It takes some chutzpah to kidnap a German general - and serious presence of mind to get away with it. Paddy, the Special Operations Executive commander of a group of 11 Cretan andartes, or guerrilla fighters, together with his second-in-command Captain William Stanley Moss, had excessive stores of both . . .

 

Abducting a General . . . is the work of a mature man, anxious to pay proper tribute to the Cretans who were the backbone of the resistance and ran by far the greatest risks. His SOE reports, which run to 90 pages here, provide gripping cinematic portraits of Leigh Fermor the soldier ― The Spectator

 

A daring behind-enemy-lines mission from the author of A Time of Gifts and The Broken Road, who was once described by the BBC as 'a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene'. Although a story often told, this is the first time Patrick Leigh Fermor's own account of the kidnapping of General Kriepe, has been published.

 

Condition: Fine. Unread copy. 

Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket.

No. of Pages: 206.

Abducting a General - the Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete

SKU: 49
£45.00Price
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    First Edition with Dust Jacket.

    Published in 2005 by Weidenfel&Nicholson.

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