New biography patrick leigh fermor
New biography patrick leigh fermor
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Patrick Leigh Fermor with Billy Moss in Crete, April 1944, wearing German uniforms Photo: Estate of William Stanley Moss, by permission
The Telegraph ran an extract from the biography over the weekend.
It was the Kreipe kidnap again!
In an extract from her life of the travel writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor, Artemis Cooper chronicles a daring kidnap in wartime Crete.
First published in the Daily Telegraph 29 September 2102.
After months of training in clandestine warfare in Palestine, Paddy Leigh Fermor joined the handful of SOE officers in occupied Crete who were working with the Cretan resistance in June 1942.
His big chance came in the autumn of the following year when he formulated a plan to kidnap a German general: not just any general but the hated Gen Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller, responsible for the butchery of the Viannos villages in September 1943.
Supposing Müller were kidnapped and whisked off the island? At a time when Greece was beginning to feel like a b