Now in paperback, this is the late travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor's own account of the operation to kidnap General Kreipe, the German Commander in Crete, in April 1944. Fermor and Captain Billy Moss kidnapped the general before...

Patrick Leigh Fermor's Mani compellingly revealed a hidden world of Southern Greece and its past. Its northern counterpart takes the reader among Sarakatsan shepherds, the monasteries of Meteora and the villages of Krakora, among...

Located at the heart of Europe's southernmost promontory, the Mani is one of the wildest, most isolated regions in Greece. In this fascinating book, Fermor bridges the genres of adventure story, travel writing, and memoir to unfurl "the...