The Cretan Runner: His Story of the German Occupation by George Psychoundakis

The Cretan Runner: His Story of the German Occupation

George Psychoundakis with Patrick Leigh Fermor (Translator)

368 pages first pub 1955 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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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 G...

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