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Chargement... The Ariadne Objective: The Underground War to Rescue Crete from the Nazis (2013)par Wes Davis
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. https://www.instagram.com/p/6oAfvuTKHN/ I wasn't expecting too much from this book as there are a good many on the subject, including primary sources. However, The Ariadne Objective is highly readable, and draws all of the available material into an easily-comprehensible narrative. The characterisation of the protagonists is skillfully drawn, and seems fair and balanced. This is a valuable addition to the literature on Cretan resistance, the SOE and the Kreipe kidnapping. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. An excellent biography of one of the main British operatives on Crete during WW2. Full of details and drama. Highly recommended to any student of military history. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. Davis has written a very compelling tale of the conflict on Crete during World War II, and painted a vivid portrait of the men who waged it, most of whom had been civilians prior to the war. This is a engaging story, and important reading for history buffs as well as those who simply enjoy seeing normal men rise up to accomplish remarkable acts. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
In the bleakest years of World War II, when it appeared that nothing could slow the German army, Hitler set his sights on the Mediterranean island of Crete, the ideal staging ground for German domination of the Middle East. But German command had not counted on the eccentric band of British intelligence officers who would stand in their way, conducting audacious sabotage operations in the very shadow of the Nazi occupation force. The Ariadne Objective tells the remarkable story of the secret war on Crete from the perspective of these amateur soldiers--scholars, archaeologists, writers--who found themselves serving as spies in Crete because, as one of them put it, they had made "the obsolete choice of Greek at school": Patrick Leigh Fermor, a Byronic figure and future travel-writing luminary who as a teenager had walked across Europe in the midst of Hitler's rise to power; John Pendlebury, a swashbuckling archaeologist with a glass eye and a swordstick, who had been legendary archeologist Arthur Evans's assistant at Knossos before the war; Xan Fielding, a writer who would later produce the English translations of books like Bridge over the River Kwai and Planet of the Apes ; and Sandy Rendel, a future Times of London reporter, who prided himself on a disguise that left him looking more ragged and fierce than the Cretan mountaineers he fought alongside. Infiltrated into occupied Crete, these British gentleman spies teamed with Cretan partisans to carry out a cunning plan to disrupt Nazi maneuvers, culminating in a daring, high-risk plot to abduct the island's German commander. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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