The stronghold
Subtitle: four seasons in the White Mountains of Crete
By: Xan Fielding ; foreword by Robert Messenger ; with photographs by Daphne Bath
Edition: First Paul Dry Books edition.
Publisher: Paul Dry Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781589880856
Subjects: Travel; Description and travel
Description: During the Second World War, Xan Fielding served for two years as an officer in the British Special Operations Executive on German-occupied Crete, where he ran an intelligence network in cooperation with the Cretan resistance movement. Seven years later, Fielding returned to Crete to spend a year traveling in the island's White Mountains (the "stronghold" of the title), revisiting sites of his wartime exploits and seeking out former comrades who had returned to their peacetime lives. His sojourn resulted in this remarkable memoir, a documentary-like record of days spent among Cretan peasants blended with history and literature -- a travelogue like no other.
Notes: Originally published : London : Secker & Warburg, 1953.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Summer-autumn.; title: Souyia; title: Koustoyerako; title: Gavdos; title: Samaria; title: Azoyires; title: Autumn-winter.; title: Asi Gonia; title: Alones; title: Canea; title: Nippos; title: Zourva; title: Winter-spring.; title: Therisso; title: Sphakia; title: Anopolis; title: Loutro; title: Kyriakosellia; title: Spring-summer.; title: The Omalo; title: St. Paul's; title: Ayios Ioannis; title: Frangokastello; title: Kallikrati.