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1444796607 
Abducting a general : the Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete / Patrick Leigh Fermor.
Publication year: 2015
Language: English
Format: Paperback
Classification: 940.5421959
Publisher: John Murray, 2015.
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9781444796605 (pbk.) :
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Originally published: 2014.
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. This book is Leigh Fermor's own account of the kidnap.
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xxix, 206 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
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