The Ariadne Objective: Patrick Leigh Fermor and the Underground War to Rescue Crete from the Nazis

Wes Davis

In the bleakest years of the Second World War when it appeared that nothing could slow the advance of the German army, Hitler set his sights on the Mediterranean island of Crete, the ideal staging ground for domination of the Middle East. But German command had not counted on the strength of the Cretan ...