The Cretan Runner: His story of the German Occupation - Psychoundakis, George
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- “Item has staining. Paperback.”
- ISBN
- 9781590179048
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1590179048
ISBN-13
9781590179048
eBay Product ID (ePID)
210337622
Product Key Features
Book Title
Cretan Runner : His Story of the German Occupation
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Topic
Military / World War II, Europe / Greece (See Also Ancient / Greece), Military
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
13 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2015-014126
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Psychoundakis was able to master challenges that would stagger an Olympic athlete: he could scramble snowy cliffs with a sixty-pound pack on his back, run fifty-plus miles through the night on a starvation diet of boiled hay, and outfox a Gestapo death squad that had him cornered." --Christopher McDougall "Psychoundakis's effortlessly poetic account reflected a passionate love of his homeland and its people, a geologist's and botanist's eye, chortling bemusement at the habits of the upper-class British agents, and deep comradeship with his fellow resistance fighters." --Simon Steyne, The Guardian "There have been other memoirs of wartime Crete but those were visitors' books. George's story, as Leigh Fermor points out in the introduction, is unique." --Allison Pearson "Any fresh volume on the subject would need to be exceptional. The Cretan Runner not only competes but transcends; it is not exceptional, it is unique." -- The Times Literary Supplement "The book has at once a calm of a race which takes it for granted that life is full of death, and the excitement of a fighter who wildly enjoys his own part of the dangerous business. It is full of jokes and full of pride." -- Sunday Times "But now Psychoundakis's style seems the fresher, a scrappy, honest account of a temporary alliance with, and allegiance to, an external force in order to rid Crete of its occupiers. And with all the frustrations, disagreements, misunderstandings and damaged pride, as well as boozy parties and heroism, that entailed." --Vera Rules, "Any fresh volume on the subject would need to be exceptional. The Cretan Runner not only competes but transcends; it is not exceptional, it is unique." -- The Times Literary Supplement "The book has at once a calm of a race which takes it for granted that life is full of death, and the excitement of a fighter who wildly enjoys his own part of the dangerous business. It is full of jokes and full of pride." -- Sunday Times "But now Psychoundakis's style seems the fresher, a scrappy, honest account of a temporary alliance with, and allegiance to, an external force in order to rid Crete of its occupiers. And with all the frustrations, disagreements, misunderstandings and damaged pride, as well as boozy parties and heroism, that entailed." --Vera Rules "His effortlessly poetic account reflected a passionate love of his homeland and its people, a geologist's and botanist's eye, the wonder of a young shepherd's experiences during furlough in Egypt and Palestine, chortling bemusement at the habits of the upper-class British agents, and deep comradeship with his fellow resistance fighters - not least Manoli Paterakis and "Michali" (Leigh Fermor's codename), who remained his lifelong friends." --Simon Steyne, The Guardian "A bond deeper than blood. The friendship forged in wartime Crete between Patrick Leigh Fermor and shepherd George Psychoundakis was commemorated in George's memoir about the Resistance, The Cretan Runner ." --Allison Pearson, The Daily Telegraph
Dewey Decimal
940.54864959092
Synopsis
George Psychoundakis was a twenty-one-year-old shepherd from the village of Asi Gonia when the battle of Crete began: "It was in May 1941 that, all of a sudden, high in the sky, we heard the drone of many aeroplanes growing steadily closer." The German parachutists soon outnumbered the British troops who were forced first to retreat, then to evacuate, before Crete fell to the Germans. So began the Cretan Resistance and the young shepherd's career as a wartime runner. In this unique account of the Resistance, Psychoundakis records the daily life of his fellow Cretans, his treacherous journeys on foot from the eastern White Mountains to the western slopes of Mount Ida to transmit messages and transport goods, and his enduring friendships with British officers (like his eventual translator Patrick Leigh Fermor) whose missions he helped to carry out with unflagging courage, energy, and good humor. Includes thirty-two black-and-white photographs and a map.
LC Classification Number
D766.7.C7P712 2015
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