The Cretan runner : his story of the German occupation /

The Cretan runner : his story of the German occupation /

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Author / Creator:Psychountakēs, Giōrgos, author.
Uniform title:Krētikos mantatophoros. English
Imprint:New York, NY : The New York Review of Books, [2015]
Description:xi, 330 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Language:English
Series:New York Review Books Classics
New York Review Books classics.
Subject:
World War (1939-1945)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Greece -- Crete.
Greece -- Crete.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12407427
Related Items:Reproduction of: Cretan runner.
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ISBN:9781590179048
1590179048
9781590179055
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"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, and Crete fell to the Germans. So began the Cretan resistance and the young shepherd's career as a war-time runner. In this unique account of Resistance life, 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"--
Other form:Online version: Psychountakēs, Giōrgos. Cretan runner. New York City : NYRB Classics, 2015 9781590179055

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