W.W.Greece Cyclades

John Bowman

Nglish

Efstathiadis Group

The Tangible Past

Politics & Social Sciences

Demopoulos

Archaeology

"This amazing story is marvelously well told, in an exuberant, racing style that makes it impossible to lay the book aside once the first page is read."—San Francisco ChronicleIll Met By Moonlight is the gripping account of the audacious World War II abduction of a German general from the island of Crete. British special forces officers W. Stanley Moss and Patrick Leigh Fermor, together with a small band of Cretan partisans, kidnapped the general, then evaded numerous German checkpoints and patrols for nearly three weeks as they maneuvered across the mountainous island to a rendezvous with the boat that finally whisked them away to Allied headquarters in Cairo."It was a mad adventure, and it came off. Moss recorded the whole escapade in a diary, which survives as a thrilling account of one of the most reckless and dramatic actions of the war."—Patrick Leigh Fermor"A twin masterpiece of action and narrative."—Spectator"[An] exciting account of a feat which demanded an extreme of daring and determination."—London TimesThe 2011 Paul Dry Books edition includes an Afterword by Patrick Leigh Fermor.W. Stanley Moss was a World War II hero and later a best-selling author. He traveled extensively after the war, notably to Antarctica with a British Antarctic Expedition. Eventually he settled in Kingston, Jamaica. Paul Dry Books also publishes A War of Shadows, Moss's sequel to Ill Met By Moonlight—a rousing account of his World War II adventures as an agent in Crete, Macedonia, and the Siamese jungle.

Ill Met by Moonlight: The Abduction of General Kreipe (Echoes of War)

Literature & Fiction

W. Stanley Moss

Contemporary

This title is available in French and English. Greece is wealthy in the diversity of its flora, possessing at least 6,000 species. But what makes Greece such a paradise for both botanists and amateur flower-lovers alike is not the great variety of species, but their rarity. Over 10 per cent of Greek flora is endemic and not to be found anywhere else in the world. This book features over 150 species. Each flower is illustrated in full colour and the accompanying information includes where the species can be found and when they flower.

Wild Flowers of Crete

george-sfikas

Medicinal Plants of Greece

Sfikas

Describes the history, people, religion, culture, myths, legends, food, drink, music, and dance of Greece

Hellas Portrait of Greece

Travel

Size 13.5 X 20

Europe

Crete 1941: the battle at sea

History

THOMAS, David A.

Based on Michael J Bird's BBC TV serial. It was 35 years since Alan Haldane had been in Crete, fighting with the partisans, lauded as a hero. Thirty-five years since he'd seen Melina or had word of her. Now he was going back, trying to rediscover in Crete what he had lacked in England: a sense of place, of peace. He couldn't find Melina, and he couldn't forget her, but he discovered that she had borne him a daughter, who was as blind to his existence as he had been to hers. He could not acknowledge her, could not let the past disrupt the present. Yet when he met Annika, and knew he could love her, he could not dispel the shadow cast between them by the ghosts of the war years. He was caught between fear and longing, in a trap that he had laid years before. He was not the only one who remembered. His presence on the island slowly rekindled a vendetta, a blood feud that could end his agony of indecision so simply -- by death.

Who Pays the Ferryman? : A Novel

Bird, Michael J.

<p>Set in the island of Lesbos this book gives an extraordinary, subtle, and haunting picture of Greek island life, its beauty and its suffering; its vitality and its tragic view of the world.</p>

Mermaid Madonna

Myrivilis

Here, among 'the most erotic landscapes in the world', Stratis Myrivilis has set his modern rendering of the legend of Sappho. Leonis Drivas returns from war. The springs of feeling have so dried in him that even the news of his mother's death with which his younger sister greets his homecoming cannot draw his tears. Like many before him, he sets himself to pick up the quiet thread of life and to exorcise the memories through his painting. First, however, he has a duty to perform. His friend Varnas, who died a death of putrefying horror beside him in the military hospital, has entrusted him with a wallet to return to his widow. Sappho Vranas, the schoolmistress with the golden eyes, is not the simple peasant girl he expected to find. Those who read THE MERMAID MADDONNA will need no second invitation to open this second, related book. Like his artist hero, Stratis Myrivilis has 'something altogether new and personal in his work, as if two undefiled eyes have opened for the first time and looked at life with wonder and awe.'

The School Mistress with Golden Hair

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