THE CRETAN RUNNER. His Story of the German Occupation.
London, The Folio Society, 2009. Translated from the Greek with an Introduction, by Patrick Leigh Fermor. Annotated by Fermor and Xan Fielding. 8vo. pp.xxxv + 221 with 6 illustrations and numerous pages of plates, endpaper maps. Original decorated pictorial cloth hardcover in slipcase. Very Good copy. Item #193115
George Psychoundakis was a twenty-one-year-old shepherd from the village of Asi Gonia when the battle of Crete began.The German parachutists soon outnumbered the British troops who were forced first to retreat, then to evacuate, before Crete fell to the Germans. So began the Cretan Resistance and the young shepherd’s career as a wartime runner. In this unique account of the Resistance,
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