Resources

Resources for Readers

Books

Ten Days to Destiny: The Battle for Crete, 1941. G. C. Kiriakopoulos. Avon Books, 1985.

Crete, 1941: The Battle and the Resistance.  Antony Beevor. Penguin Books, 2014.

Crete: The Battle for Heraklion, 1941:  The Campaign Revealed Through Allied and Axis Accounts.  Yannis Prekatsounakis. Helion and Company, 2016.

Abducting A General: The Kreipe Operation and the SOE in Crete. Patrick Leigh Fermor. John Murray, 2014.

Ill Met By Moonlight: The Classic Story of Wartime Daring. W. Stanley Moss. George Harrap and Company , 1950, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2014.

Shadows in the Night.  Antonis Sanoudakis and George Doundoulakis.  City of Archanes, Typokreta. 1999.

Cairo in the War: 1939- 1941. Artemis Cooper. John Murray, 2013.

Trained to Be an OSS Spy.  Helias Doundoulakis with Gabriella Gafni. Xlibris, 2014.

My Unique Lifetime Association with Patrick Leigh Fermor.  Helias Doundoulakis with Gabriella Gafni, 2012.

The Cretan Runner: His Story of the German Occupation.  George Psychoundakis, Translated by Patrick Leigh Fermor. John Murray, 1955, Penguin Books, 1998.New York Review Books.

Officers and Gentlemen, Evelyn Waugh. Little, Brown and Company, 1955.

Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure, Artemis Cooper. John Murray, 2012, New York Review Book.

Inside Hitler’s Greece: The Experience of Occupation.  Mark Mazower. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1993.

One Wing High: Halifax Bomber- the Navigator’s Story.  Harry Lomas. Airlife Publishing LLC, 1995.

Flying Into Hell: The Bomber Command Offensive As Seen Through The Experiences of Twenty Crews, Mel Rolfe. Grub Street, 2001.

Greece: A Political and Economic Survey, 1939-1953, Bickham Sweet-Excott.  The Royal Institute of International Affairs. Richard Clay and Company, 1954.

A Time of Gifts, On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube, Patrick Leigh Fermor. John Murray, 1977, Harper and Row, 1977, Penguin Books, 1979.

Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Life in Letters, Selected and Edited by Adam Sisman. John Murray, 2016, New York Review Book.

The Village: A Novel of Wartime Crete.  Philip Duke. Top Hat Books, 2019.

The Struggle for Crete: 20 May- 1 June 1941, A Story of Lost Opportunity. I. McD, G Stewart. Oxford University Press, 1966, Paperback 1991.

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin. Erik Larson. Broadway Paperbacks, an Imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House Inc.

Killing Patton, The Strange Death of World War II’s Most Audacious General. Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard. Henry Holt and Company, 2014.

Divry’s New English-Greek and Greek-English Dictionary. D. C. Divry, Inc, 1983.

 

 

Films

Ill Met by Moonlight (also known by the titles Night Ambush and Intelligence Service), with Dick Bogarde, 1957

 

The 11th Day, Crete 1941. 2006, includes over 500 archival photos, an Archangel Films Production.  www.crete1941.com  In this documentary the viewer will see and hear many of the people directly affected by the Second World War in Crete and the Nazi occupation, including Patrick Leigh Fermor, George Tzikas, and Antonios Kounalakis, among many other heroes of the Battle of Crete.