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) 
issue 04 October 2014
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  • Abducting a General

    Patrick Leigh Fermor

    John Murray, pp. 200

  • Kidnap in Crete

    Rick Stroud

    Bloomsbury, pp. 255

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