ABDUCTING A GENERAL: THE KREIPE OPERATION AND SOE IN CRETE

Book ID/图书代码： 07100014B73507

English Summary/英文概要： A daring behind-enemy-lines mission from the author of A Time of Gifts and The Broken Road, who was once described by the BBC as ’a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene’.

One of the greatest feats in Patrick Leigh Fermor’s remarkable life was the kidnapping of General Kreipe, the German commander in Crete, on 26 April 1944. He and Captain Billy Moss hatched a daring plan to abduct the general, while ensuring that no reprisals were taken against the Cretan population. Dressed as German military police, they stopped and took control of Kreipe’s car, drove through twenty-two German checkpoints, then succeeded in hiding from the German army before finally being picked up on a beach in the south of the island and transported to safety in Egypt on 14 May.

Abducting a General is Leigh Fermor’s own account of the kidnap, published for the first time. Written in his inimitable prose, and introduced by acclaimed Special Operations Executive historian Roderick Bailey, it is a glorious first-hand account of one of the great adventures of the Second World War. Also included in this book are Leigh Fermor’s intelligence reports, sent from caves deep within Crete yet still retaining his remarkable prose skills, which bring the immediacy of SOE operations vividly alive, as well as the peril which the SOE and Resistance were operating under; and a guide to the journey that Kreipe was taken on, as seen in the 1957 film Ill Met by Moonlight starring Dirk Bogarde, from the abandonment of his car to the embarkation site so that the modern visitor can relive this extraordinary event.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 上世纪最著名的游记作家，同时也是《礼物的季节》和《破碎的道路》的作者帕特里克??雷??弗莫尔还曾是英国特种部队的突击队员，他曾被英国广播公司赞誉为“集印第安纳??琼斯，詹姆士??邦德和格雷厄姆??格林优点于一身的男人”。

弗莫尔在克里特岛战役中最大的战绩便是于1944年4月26日绑架了德军指挥官海因里希??克莱佩将军。弗莫尔和比利??莫斯上尉大胆地计划了这个绑架行动而没有伤及克里特岛的平民。他们随后穿上德军制服，开着克莱佩的军车突破了德军22个检查口，后在5月14日终于得到援军接应，安全抵达埃及。

《绑架克赖佩将军》是弗莫尔根据回忆写作而成的，也是第一次出版。这段珍贵而光荣的第一手二战历史资料受到了知名特别行动处历史学家罗德里克??贝利的推荐。书中还记叙了弗莫尔在战争中送出的情报，在克里特岛战役中所冒的风险以及绑架克赖佩将军的路线方针，游客可以根据他们汽车而逃到上船的路线重温那段历史。（XAT）

Awards/获奖情况：It takes some chutzpah to kidnap a German general - and serious presence of mind to get away with it. Paddy, the Special Operations Executive commander of a group of 11 Cretan andartes, or guerrilla fighters, together with his second-in-command Captain William Stanley Moss, had excessive stores of both . . . Abducting a General . . . is the work of a mature man, anxious to pay proper tribute to the Cretans who were the backbone of the resistance and ran by far the greatest risks. His SOE reports, which run to 90 pages here, provide gripping cinematic portraits of Leigh Fermor the soldier ― The Spectator

Beautifully written . . . Fermor’s love of Crete and scholarly knowledge of the Classics exude from the pages ― The Times

As a pure adventure story . . . it is hard to beat ― Financial Times

About the Author/作者介绍： 帕特里克??雷??弗莫尔曾旅居于巴尔干半岛和希腊群岛。他曾加入爱尔兰卫队，在克里特岛战役中带领队伍抓获了德军指挥官，并被授予优异服务勋章和大英帝国勋章。2007年，弗莫尔开始写作记录自己在欧洲的奇幻旅程，《时间的礼物》和《游走于森林与湖泊之间》。弗莫尔于2011年去世，他的第三本未完成的小说由科林??休布伦和阿尔特弥斯??库珀编辑并命名为《破碎的路》。

Following his walk across Europe, Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) lived and travelled in the Balkans and Greek Archipelago. He joined the Irish Guards and during the occupation of Crete led the party that captured the German commander. He was awarded the DSO and OBE. Towards the end of his life he wrote the first two books about his early trans-European odyssey, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. He planned a third, unfinished at the time of his death in 2011, which has since been edited by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper and published as The Broken Road.

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Previous Publishers for Patrick Leigh Fermor China (Chong Qing UP), Germany (Doerlemann), Greece (Metaichmio), Italy (Adelphi), Korea (Springday’s Books), the Netherlands (Atlas Contact), Spain (RBA)

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