Kidnap In Crete
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Kidnap In Crete
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Author : Rick Stroud
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2015-05-05
Kidnap In Crete written by Rick Stroud and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-05 with History categories.
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 days, they were chased across the mountains as they headed for the coast and a rendezvous with a Royal Navy launch waiting to spirit the general to Cairo. Rick Stroud, whose Phantom Army of Alamein won plaudits for its meticulous research and its lightness of touch in the telling, brings these same gifts to bear in this new project. From the adrenalin rush of the kidnapping, to the help provided by the Cretan partisans and people, he explains the overall context of Crete's role in World War II and reveals the devastating consequences of this mission for them all. There have been other accounts, but Kidnap in Crete is the first book to draw on all the sources, notably those in Crete as well as SOE files and the accounts, letters, and private papers of its operatives in London and Edinburgh.
Abducting A General
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Author : Patrick Leigh Fermor
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-10-09
Abducting A General written by Patrick Leigh Fermor and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-09 with History categories.
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. One of the greatest feats in Patrick Leigh Fermor's remarkable life was the kidnapping of General Kreipe, the German commander in Crete, on 26 April 1944. He and Captain Billy Moss hatched a daring plan to abduct the general, while ensuring that no reprisals were taken against the Cretan population. Dressed as German military police, they stopped and took control of Kreipe's car, drove through twenty-two German checkpoints, then succeeded in hiding from the German army before finally being picked up on a beach in the south of the island and transported to safety in Egypt on 14 May. Abducting a General is Leigh Fermor's own account of the kidnap, published for the first time. Written in his inimitable prose, and introduced by acclaimed Special Operations Executive historian Roderick Bailey, it is a glorious first-hand account of one of the great adventures of the Second World War. Also included in this book are Leigh Fermor's intelligence reports, sent from caves deep within Crete yet still retaining his remarkable prose skills, which bring the immediacy of SOE operations vividly alive, as well as the peril which the SOE and Resistance were operating under; and a guide to the journey that Kreipe was taken on, as seen in the 1957 film Ill Met by Moonlight starring Dirk Bogarde, from the abandonment of his car to the embarkation site so that the modern visitor can relive this extraordinary event.
Ill Met By Moonlight
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Author : William Stanley Moss
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Ill Met By Moonlight written by William Stanley Moss and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Crete (Greece) categories.
The true story of the kidnapping of a German general, Karl Kreipe, on the German occupied island of Crete. Major "Paddy" Patrick Leigh-Fermor, leader of a group of British secret agents worked with Cretan partisans to accomplish this feat.
When Dead In Greece
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Author : L. T. Ryan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
When Dead In Greece written by L. T. Ryan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Crete (Greece) categories.
"A ghost on the Greek island of Crete. Jack Noble is grounded, recovering from his injuries and a near-death experience. The small town isn't so bad. An old guy named Esau has provided him with a place to stay. The food's good. And Isadora, Esau's niece, is easy on the eyes. But tranquility is interrupted when a group of local criminals threatens Esau, and kidnaps his niece. Despite his weakened state, Jack risks it all to save the beautiful woman he hardly knows, and settle the debt that Esau signed in blood."--Back cover.
Kidnap
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Author : Ian Strachan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Kidnap written by Ian Strachan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Betrayal categories.
When Nick finally realizes that he has been kidnapped by his Greek father, the loyalty he feels for his divorced parents is put through a legal and emotional tug-of-war.
The Ransom
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Author : Irena Nieslony
language : en
Publisher: Belgrave House
Release Date : 2015-02-03
The Ransom written by Irena Nieslony and has been published by Belgrave House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-03 with Fiction categories.
Eve Masters’ life is thrown into disarray when the love of her life, David Baker, is kidnapped and she receives a ransom note for 100,000 euros. As usual Eve refuses to trust the Crete police; she’s determined to find the kidnappers herself, even to suspecting their friends. Things go from bad to worse when David escapes and someone tries to kill him. Then Eve disappears... Contemporary Romantic Suspense by Irena Nieslony; first published by My Weekly at DC Thompson (UK)
Ill Met By Moonlight
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Author : W. Stanley Moss
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-03-27
Ill Met By Moonlight written by W. Stanley Moss and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
NOW WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY W. STANLEY MOSS'S DAUGHTER GABRIELLA BULLOCK AND AN AFTERWORD BY PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR Ill Met By Moonlight is the true story of one of the most hazardous missions of the Second World War. W. Stanley Moss is a young British officer who, along with Major Patrick Leigh Fermor, sets out in Nazi-occupied Crete to kidnap General Kreipe, Commander of the Sevastopool Division, and narrowly escaping the German manhunt, bring him off the island - a vital prisoner for British intelligence. As an account of derring-do and wartime adventure, made into a classic film starring Dirk Bogarde, Ill Met By Moonlight is one of the most brilliantly written, exciting and compelling stories to come out of the Second World War.
The Ariadne Objective
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Author : Wes Davis
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2014-05-22
The Ariadne Objective written by Wes Davis and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the bleakest years of the Second World War when it appeared that nothing could slow the advance of the German army, Hitler set his sights on the Mediterranean island of Crete, the ideal staging ground for domination of the Middle East. But German command had not counted on the strength of the Cretan resistance or the eccentric band of British intelligence officers who would stand in their way, conducting audacious sabotage operations in the very shadow of the Nazi occupation force. The Ariadne Objective tells the remarkable story of the secret war on Crete from the perspective of these amateur soldiers who found themselves serving because, as one of them put it, they had made 'the obsolete choice of Greek at school'. John Pendlebury, a swashbuckling archaeologist with a glass eye and a swordstick; Xan Fielding, a writer who would later produce the English translations of books like Bridge on the River Kwai and Planet of the Apes; Sandy Rendel, a future Times reporter, who prided himself on a disguise that left him looking more ragged and fierce than the Cretans he fought alongside; and Patrick Leigh Fermor, the future travel-writing luminary who, as a teenager in the early 1930s, walked across Europe, a continent already beginning to feel the effects of Hitler's rise to power. Having infiltrated occupied Crete, these British gentleman spies teamed with Cretan partisans to carry out a cunning plan to disrupt Nazi manoeuvres, culminating in a daring, high-risk plot to abduct the island’s German commander. In this thrilling and little known episode of Second World War history, Wes Davis paints a brilliant portrait of some extraordinary characters and tells a story of triumph against all the odds.
A Time Of Gifts
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Author : Patrick Leigh Fermor
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-10-10
A Time Of Gifts written by Patrick Leigh Fermor and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
INTRODUCED BY JAN MORRIS '[This] gloriously ornate account of that epic journey is a classic' ROBERT MACFARLANE 'The feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling ahead is a prospect of inconjecturable magic.' In 1933, aged eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on his 'great trudge', a year-long journey by foot from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul. Three decades later he wrote A Time of Gifts, the sparklingly original account of the first part of this youthful adventure, which took him through the Low Countries, up the Rhine, through Germany, down the Danube, through Austria and Czechoslovakia, and as far as Hungary. Alone, carrying only a rucksack and with a small allowance of only a pound a week, Fermor had planned to sleep rough - to live 'like a tramp, a pilgrim, or a wandering scholar' - but a chance introduction in Bavaria led to comfortable stays in castles, and provided a glimpse of the old Europe of princes and peasants. Hailed as a masterpiece, A Time of Gifts is in part a coming-of-age memoir, but it is also a rich and compelling portrait of a continent that - despite its resplendent domes and monasteries, its great rivers and grand cities - was soon to be swept away by war, modernisation and profound social change. 'Not only is this journey one of physical adventure but of cultural awakening. Architecture, art, genealogy, quirks of history and language are all devoured -- and here passed on -- with a gusto uniquely his' COLIN THUBRON, SUNDAY TIMES 'One of the most romantic books of the twentieth century, Patrick Leigh Fermor's account of a long walk across Europe is also a literary treasure, a rich blend of action and observation' GUARDIAN
Iron Curtain Holds Greek Children Captive
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Author : Greece. Presveia (U.S.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1950
Iron Curtain Holds Greek Children Captive written by Greece. Presveia (U.S.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1950 with Children categories.