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Abducting a General: the Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete Free FREE ABDUCTING A GENERAL: THE KREIPE OPERATION AND SOE IN CRETE PDF Patrick Leigh Fermor | 240 pages | 11 Jun 2015 | Hodder & Stoughton General Division | 9781444796605 | English | London, United Kingdom Abducting A General Although a story often told, this is the first time Patrick Leigh Fermor's own account of the kidnapping Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete General Kriepe, has been published. 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 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 Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete 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 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. Geben Sie Ihre Mobiltelefonnummer ein, um die kostenfreie App zu beziehen. Mehr lesen Weniger lesen. Beliebte Taschenbuch-Empfehlungen des Monats. Kunden, die diesen Artikel gekauft haben, kauften auch. Seite 1 von 1 Zum Anfang Seite 1 von 1. Patrick Leigh Fermor. Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece. Nur noch 18 auf Lager mehr ist unterwegs. Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese. Nur noch 9 auf Lager Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete ist unterwegs. Kunden, die diesen Artikel angesehen haben, haben auch angesehen. Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure. Artemis Cooper. Nur noch 19 auf Lager. Flugs in die Post! Gebundene Ausgabe. Nur noch 16 auf Lager mehr ist unterwegs. Die Zeit der Gaben. Der Reise erster Teil. Nur noch 5 auf Lager mehr ist unterwegs. Alle kostenlosen Kindle-Leseanwendungen anzeigen. Sie haben keinen Kindle? Hier kaufen oder eine gratis Kindle Lese-App herunterladen. Oktober Sprache: : Englisch. Pressestimmen It takes some chutzpah to kidnap a German general - and serious presence of mind to get away with it. Paddy, the Special Operations Executive commander of a group of 11 Cretan andartes, or guerrilla fighters, together with his second-in-command Captain William Stanley Moss, had excessive stores of both. Abducting a General. Fermor's love of Crete and scholarly knowledge of the Classics exude from the pages The Times As a pure adventure story. Leigh Fermor's many fans will find plenty of the old master's fizz in this resurrected work. Afficionados of the tale were spoilt this year Daily Express Gripping buccaneering of the old school Sun Paddy was the Byron of our time Standpoint A riveting first-hand account Good Book Guide Abducting Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete General is filled with the same rich exuberant prose [as his trilogy] and fulfils its objective as portraying the Cretan people as the true heroes of the resistance TLS. Following his walk across Europe, he lived and travelled in the Balkans and Greek Archipelago. He joined the Irish Guards and during the occupation of Crete led the party that captured the German commander. Towards the end of his life he wrote Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete first two books about his early trans-European odyssey, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. He planned a third, unfinished at the time of his death inwhich has since been edited by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper and published as The Broken Road. Mehr lesen. Welche anderen Artikel kaufen Kunden, nachdem sie diesen Artikel angesehen haben? Wes Davis. Nur noch 4 auf Lager mehr ist unterwegs. Wie werden Bewertungen berechnet? Spitzenrezensionen Neueste zuerst Spitzenrezensionen. Spitzenbewertungen aus Deutschland. Verifizierter Kauf. This is a bit like the Dirk Bogarde film, interesting but with little tension that would have been far more interesting. If this was a novel it would not be worth more than a couple of stars. As a description of a real life situation, it earns an extra star but the publishers had to fill in. That's not to denigrate the author who was a soldier and adventurer and not a writer. PLF was a famous author in his own right, and I think he was pressurised into writing his side of the abduction, but in facts there is no difference to the Moss account, except PLF places more appreciation on the role of the Cretan Partisan support. Eine Person fand diese Informationen hilfreich. Patrick Leigh Fermor and his SOE colleagues were, without doubt, brave and resourceful men who lived under the continual threat of betrayal and capture. The book reads like a report to his headquarters and in fact the second half is just that, being descriptions of his activities with the Cretan resistance. Only the first half of the book is about the kidnapping of the General. Warmly commended. Perhaps I should re-read Ill Met by Moonlight to see how the two accounts differ. Fermor was one of our greatest travel writers. Anducting a German general and moving him over the rugged mountains to the south coast for evacuation to Cairo was a master-stroke. The story also reveals the hardiness and heroism of the Cretan freedom fighters. Alle Rezensionen anzeigen. Entdecken Sie jetzt alle Amazon Prime-Vorteile. Geld verdienen mit Amazon. Amazon Advertising Kunden finden, gewinnen und binden. Shopbop Designer Modemarken. Amazon Warehouse Reduzierte B-Ware. Amazon Business Kauf auf Rechnung. Heinrich Kreipe - Wikipedia Crete Cretan Resistance. On the night of 26 April, Kreipe's car was ambushed while en route from his residence to the Divisional H. Kreipe was tied and forced into the back seat while Leigh Fermor and Moss impersonated him and his driver respectively. Kreipe's notorious impatience at roadblocks enabled the car to successfully pass numerous checkpoints before being abandoned at the hamlet of Heliana. The abductors continued on foot, continuing to Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete thousands of Axis soldiers sent to stop them, with the help of guides from the local resistance. On 14 May, the team was picked up by a British motorboat from the Rodakino beach and safely transported to British-held Egypt. The success of the operation was put into question several months after its conclusion. The outcome came to be seen as a symbolic propaganda victory rather than a strategic one. The operation entered popular imagination through the biographical works of several of its participants, most notably Moss's book Ill Met by Moonlight. On 6 April, Nazi Germany launched an invasion of its own from Bulgaria known as Operation Maritareaching Greece's southern shore on 30 April and ending the Battle of Greece with a decisive victory. The island was in turn attacked by a massive Nazi airborne invasion on 20 May The Germans occupied the western three prefectures of the island with their headquarters in Chaniawhilst the Italians occupied the easternmost prefecture of Lasithi. They assisted Allied soldiers stranded on the island evade capture and helped them escape to the British controlled Middle East. Supplied with wireless sets and augmented by SOE stay behind operatives, they began co-ordinating their actions with the Allied command. None of these plans were carried out. The SOE planned to kidnap him while keeping the use of violence at a minimum and transport him to Egypt, thus giving a morale boost to the Cretans. In late ,Leigh Fermor and Moss formed a squad with two Cretan resistance members, Georgios Tyrakis and Emmanouil Paterakis, who were to accompany them in their mission. After undergoing training in Palestine and facing numerous delays the team flew to the headquarters of the British 8th Army [11] in Bari on 4 January Leigh Fermor was the only one be airdropped at the Katharo plateau, due to a sudden weather change that caused the area to be obscured by clouds. The team moved to a cave system in the mountains above Kastamonitsa village, the hideout of a local rebel band. Mikis' house was conveniently located across the road from Kreipe's residence, the Villa Ariadnein the village of Knossos. After traveling by bus with Mikis, he reconnoitered the area surrounding the villa. Surrounded by a triple wire barrier one of which was rumoured to be electrified and guarded by a sizeable garrison, it was deemed too dangerous to attempt a kidnapping directly. The decision was taken to seize Kreipe during one of his frequent trips from Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete residence to the divisional H. Upon surveying the route, they discovered a T-junction where the road from Archanes joined the main road to Heraklionforcing cars to slow down to almost a standstill, the location was subsequently named Point A.
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