Monday 11 January 2016

Kidnapping a Nazi General: Patrick Leigh Fermor's Perfect Heist

Kidnapping a Nazi General: Patrick Leigh Fermor's Perfect Heist

The sierras of occupied Crete, familiar from nearly two years of clandestine sojourn and hundreds of exacting marches, looked quite different through the aperture in the converted bomber’s floor and the gaps in the clouds below: a chaos of snow-covered, aloof and enormous spikes glittering as white as a glacier in the February moonlight. There, suddenly, on a tiny plateau among the peaks, were the three signal fires twinkling. A few moments later they began expanding fast...
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