Abducting a General
Subtitle: The Kreipe Operation in Crete
By: Patrick Leigh Fermor
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781590179383
Subjects: Kidnapping, 1944; Secret service; Underground movements; World War, 1939-1945; Great Britain. Special Operations Executive; Soldiers; Travel; Great Britain; Biography
Description: "One of the most daring feats in Patrick Leigh Fermor's daring life was the kidnapping of General Kreipe, the German commander in Crete, on April 26, 1944. Abducting a General, now published for the first time in the United States, is Leigh Fermor's own account of the kidnapping. Written in his inimitable prose, and introduced by the acclaimed Special Operations Executive historian Roderick Bailey, it is a glorious firsthand 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, which bring the immediacy of SOE operations vividly alive, as well as the peril under which the SOE and Resistance were operating, and a guide to the journey that Kreipe took, from the abandonment of his car to the embarkation site, so that the modern visitor to Crete can relive this extraordinary trip"--
Notes: Originally published: London : John Murray, 2014.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: War Reports, Crete 1942-1945; title: Introduction; title: Glossary of Pseudonyms; title: Report No. 1; title: Report No. 2; title: Report No. 3; title: Report No. 4; title: Report No. 5; title: Report No. 6; title: Report No. 7; title: Report No. 8; title: Report No. 9; title: A Guide to the Abduction Route.