Travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor recalls his most dangerous journey.
Kidnapping a Nazi General: Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Perfect Heist
Kidnapping a Nazi General: Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Perfect Heist

Patrick Leigh Fermor | Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation in Crete | New York Review Books | November 2015 | 31 minutes (8,432 words)
Below is an excerpt from Abducting a General, Patrick Leigh Fermor’s recently published memoir of a remarkable military operation in Crete: the kidnapping of a Nazi general. It was the only such kidnapping to have been successfully undertaken by the Allies. During his lifetime Leigh Fermor was Britain’s greatest travel writer, best known for A Time of Gifts. As recommended by Longreads contributing editor Dana Snitzky.
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