The Resource Abducting a General : the Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete, Patrick Leigh Fermor
Abducting a General : the Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete, Patrick Leigh Fermor
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- ix, 206 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Note
- Includes index
- Contents
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- Machine generated contents note: Abducting a General
- War Reports, Crete 1942--1945
- Introduction
- Glossary of Pseudonyms
- Report No. 1
- Report No. 2
- Report No. 3
- Report No. 4
- Report No. 5
- Report No. 6
- Report No. 7
- Report No. 8
- Report No. 9
- A Guide to the Abduction Route
- Isbn
- 9781444799880
- Label
- Abducting a General : the Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete
- Title
- Abducting a General
- Title remainder
- the Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete
- Statement of responsibility
- Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Subject
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- Great Britain, Special Operations Executive
- Kreipe, Karl -- Kidnapping
- Moss, W. Stanley, (William Stanley), 1921-
- Fermor, Patrick Leigh
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Greece | Crete
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Great Britain
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Greece | Crete
- Moss, W. Stanley, (William Stanley), 1921- -- Career in Special Operations
- Fermor, Patrick Leigh -- Career in Special Operations
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Fermor, Patrick Leigh
- Dewey number
- 940.542149
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Moss, W. Stanley
- Moss, W. Stanley
- Kreipe, Karl
- Fermor, Patrick Leigh
- Fermor, Patrick Leigh
- Great Britain
- Great Britain
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Abducting a General : the Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete, Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- cartographic image
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Abducting a General -- War Reports, Crete 1942--1945 -- Introduction -- Glossary of Pseudonyms -- Report No. 1 -- Report No. 2 -- Report No. 3 -- Report No. 4 -- Report No. 5 -- Report No. 6 -- Report No. 7 -- Report No. 8 -- Report No. 9 -- A Guide to the Abduction Route
- Control code
- 000053549015
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- ix, 206 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781444799880
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps, portraits
- Label
- Abducting a General : the Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete, Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- cartographic image
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Abducting a General -- War Reports, Crete 1942--1945 -- Introduction -- Glossary of Pseudonyms -- Report No. 1 -- Report No. 2 -- Report No. 3 -- Report No. 4 -- Report No. 5 -- Report No. 6 -- Report No. 7 -- Report No. 8 -- Report No. 9 -- A Guide to the Abduction Route
- Control code
- 000053549015
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- ix, 206 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781444799880
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps, portraits
Subject
- Great Britain, Special Operations Executive
- Kreipe, Karl -- Kidnapping
- Moss, W. Stanley, (William Stanley), 1921-
- Fermor, Patrick Leigh
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Greece | Crete
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Great Britain
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Greece | Crete
- Moss, W. Stanley, (William Stanley), 1921- -- Career in Special Operations
- Fermor, Patrick Leigh -- Career in Special Operations
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