Vasili: The Lion of Crete By W.Murray Elliott.

Vasili: The Lion of Crete
By W.Murray Elliott.

Publisher:
Century Hutchinson, 1987, first edition.

Very good hardback with jacket, some compression to spine ends, rubbing to edges, no inscriptions.
Jacket has a faded and chipped spine.
175 pages, illustrated.

The remarkable true story of Tom Dunbabin, an Australian-born classical scholar turned legendary New Zealand special agent during World War II.
The book follows Tom Dunbabin, an intellectual who spoke fluent Greek and knew the rugged terrain of Crete intimately. After the German occupation of Crete in 1941, he was sent behind enemy lines by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) to coordinate the local resistance movement. He lived disguised as a Cretan shepherd in caves and mountains, earning the fierce respect of the local population and the codename "Vasili". It chronicles his daring guerrilla operations, intelligence gathering, and narrow escapes from the Gestapo, who put a massive bounty on his head.

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