New biography patrick leigh fermor photos
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This is a growing collection of photographs of Paddy, his family, friends and colleagues. Most gathered from the web. All photo donations welcomed!
Paddy’s SOE photo from his SOE file (from Steven Kippax)
Ill Met by Moonlight – photographs from the book by William Stanley Moss
John Chapman’s photographs of Paddy at home in Kardamyli
SOE Colleagues – a growing collection of fellow officers and men of SOE
OPRIG GAGINONANUS – some fun pictures from our competition to find the garage doors Paddy drew in In Tearing Haste.
Paddy, Debo and Charlotte Mosley, signing copies of ‘In Tearing Haste’ The letters of the Duchess of Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor, edited by Charlotte Mosley (John Murray), at Hatchards, Piccadilly. London, 4th of September 2008
Photos from the launch of Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure – A selection of pictures from the tour around Paddy’s Mayfair led by Artemis Cooper, and then the launch of the book at The Travellers Club, Pall Mall on 17 October 2012.
Assorted Photographs
“I’ve attached a photograph of Paddy & Joan’s villa at Kalymitsis which I shot from a motor-boat my wife and I had hired on Stoupa beach. I wouldn’t have published it during his life as
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Collection: Patrick Actress Fermor
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Patrick Leigh Fermor with Billy Moss in Crete, April 1944, wearing German uniforms Photo: Estate of William Stanley Moss, by permission
The Telegraph ran an extract from the biography over the weekend. It was the Kreipe kidnap again!
In an extract from her life of the travel writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor, Artemis Cooper chronicles a daring kidnap in wartime Crete.
First published in the Daily Telegraph 29 September 2102.
After months of training in clandestine warfare in Palestine, Paddy Leigh Fermor joined the handful of SOE officers in occupied Crete who were working with the Cretan resistance in June 1942. His big chance came in the autumn of the following year when he formulated a plan to kidnap a German general: not just any general but the hated Gen Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller, responsible for the butchery of the Viannos villages in September 1943. Supposing Müller were kidnapped and whisked off the island? At a time when Greece was beginning to feel like a backwater as the war pushed up through Italy, an operation of this kind would generate a lot of noise and publicity: it would make the Germans look remarkably foolish, and give a terrific boost to Cretan morale.
Despite questions being asked about the mission because of the risks it posed to Cretan