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Kidnap in Crete

The True Story of the Abduction of a Nazi General

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Kidnap in Crete

Yazan: Rick Stroud
Seslendiren: Michael Maloney
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This is the story of how a small SOE unit led by Patrick Leigh Fermor kidnapped a German general on the Nazi-occupied island of Crete in 1944.

For 32 days, they were chased across the mountains as they headed for the coast and a rendezvous with a Royal Navy launch waiting to spirit the general to Cairo. Rick Stroud, whose Phantom Army of Alamein won plaudits for its meticulous research and its lightness of touch in the telling, brings these same gifts to bear in this new project. From the adrenaline rush of the kidnapping to the help provided by the Cretan partisans and people, he explains the overall context of Crete's role in World War II and reveals the devastating consequences of this mission for them all. There have been other accounts, but Kidnap in Crete is the first book to draw on all the sources, notably those in Crete as well as SOE files and the accounts, letters, and private papers of its operatives in London and Edinburgh.

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what an extraordinary story. the narrator is excellent and there is never a dull moment.

excellent

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loved it..been to crete many times and to hear this true story and knowing the locations, I can really appreciate the difficulties they must have encountered...highly recommended.

True story brought to life.

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Very well researched, written and presented. Really brings to life the whole event and the moral questions also as to the cost of the operation for the Cretan people.

Superlative account of a fascinating wartime escapade

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excellent narration. already knew story but audio really brought it to life. reckless stunt or real blow to nazi morale? sadly given the brutal german reprisals i would say it wasnt worth it.

great story of plucky derring do in ww2.

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This wartime story from Crete is most powerfully written and excellently narrated. Like every great book once started you have to finish. Having visited Crete many times and when I visited the wartime museum in Chania, I was surprised at how the museum had painted a very negative picture of the Allies and their subsequent involvement in resistance against the German occupiers. This seemed to me to contradict Cretan testimony and other wartime sources. This book is well written about the particular kidnap of a high ranking German officer, let's be honest there's no real winners in war, no good or bad. All are bad all capable of terrible acts towards fellow humankind. That said this was a daring wartime act and very exciting to read and listen to. I wish all Audible narrators were as good!

Thrilling and terrifying both

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