Justin Marozzi

More derring dos and don’ts from Paddy Leigh Fermor

A review of Abducting a General, by Patrick Leigh Fermor, and Kidnap in Crete, by Rick Stroud. An exhilarating account of Paddy’s hair-raising kidnapping of a Nazi general that was ultimately of dubious strategic value

Patrick Leigh Fermor as a Major in the parachute regiment. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

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