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'On finding that entire staff . . .', PRO WO 218/166.

'Come on, Lofty . . .', Tanner, conversation, 2.12.90.

'had a personal . . .', Graham, letter to Davie.

'My orders were to go with the men . . .', Laycock, PRO DEFE 2/699.

'Presume Ivor . . .',
The Letters of Anne Fleming
(ed. Mark Amory), p.155.

'I replied that if . . .', Waugh,
The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh,
6 July 1955, p.728.

"Then came the . . .', quoted Long, p.307.

'It's all right . . .', quoted Messenger,
The Middle East Commandos,
p.93.

'What are you . . .', quoted Long, p.307.

'There they proceeded . . .,' Hildyard diary.

20.
Cairo and London

'There was Cairo . . .', Forrester, conversation, 4.10.90.

'The reaction of the US . . .', Eccles,
By Safe Hand,
p.274.

'I don't . . .', Killearn Diaries, 29 May 1941, St Antony's College, Oxford.

'hum of splenetic . . .', Lee, p.lll.

'Everyone was . . .', Wilkinson, conversation, 20.2.90.

'I am far from reassured . . .', Churchill, 14 June 1941, PRO PREM 3/109.

'Of course, you know . . .', Farrar-Hockley, p. 101.

'a bitter memory', Pöppel, p.67.

'attributed by the German command . . .', Memorandum, Canea, 1942.

'His attitude . . .', de Winton, conversation, 28.9.90.

'in my view . . .', Laycock, PRO DEFE 2/699.

'Our case was indeed . . .', C.J. Hamson, p.12.

Part Three

The Resistance

21.
Reprisal, Evasion and Resistance

'Ten Commandments . . .', quoted Mabire,
La Crete,
p.449.

'Many parachutists ...', quoted Zayas,
The Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau,
p.155.

'It is certain that the civilian population . . .', General Student, Order of 31.5.41, quoted Memorandum, Canea, 1942.

'certain punitive measures . . .', PRO FO
371/28885,
quoted Zayas, p.99.

‘as inclined to agree',
ibid.

Ah yes, we have plenty of those', quoted Powell, p.164.

'thrash them . . .', Psychoundakis,
The Cretan Runner,
p.37.

'Usual drill . . .', Sandover, conversation, 12.10.90.

'to feel out the country . . .', Stockbridge, conversation, 27.6.90.

'the restless, furtive . . .', Smith-Hughes, conversation, 20.8.90.

'fruity, flippant and bloodthirsty', Rendel,
Appointment in Crete,
p.25.

'a few hasty words . . .', quoted Powell, p. 155.

'immensely brave and . . .', Fräser, conversation, 12.6.90.

'It is ill-gleaning after Pendlebury', quoted Powell, p. 159.

'One of Tom's . . .', Leigh Fermor, letter to the author, 28.8.90.

'The villagers were so hospitable . . .', quoted Powell, p.159.

'Everything depended . . .', Stockbridge, letter to the author, 20.8.90.

22.
Into the Field

'SOE was a strange . . .', Woodhouse,
Something Ventured,
p.28.

‘his rather surprised . . .', Diaries of Lord Killearn, 24 March 1941.

'outhouse over the road . . .', Smith-Hughes, conversation, 20.8.90.

'SOE and SIS were separated . . .', War Cabinet Defence Committee (Operations) SOE Operations in Europe: Note by Minister of Economic Warfare DO (44) 2 of 11 January 1944.

'SOE was basically . . .', Stockbridge, conversation, 27.6.90.

'I can't tell you . . .', Ward, conversation, 28.5.90.

'a subject which anyone . . .', Rendel, p.18.

'the personnel people . . .', Ward, conversation, 28.5.90.

'Four months after . . .', Woodhouse,
Apple of Discord,
p.45. See also Denys Hamson,
We Fell Among
Greeks,
p. 149.

'This part of our . . .', Rendel, p.22.

'more like a practical joke . . .', Rendel, p.27.

'like marching through . . .', Rendel, p.57.

'Some talk . . .', John Pendelbury, quoted Hammond and Dunbabin, p.47.

'What, never seen . . .', Stanley, conversation, 4.7.90.

'pallikari-complex',
Fielding,
The Stronghold,
p.28.

'Stand still Turk . . .', Psychoundakis, p.87.

'Your knees began . . .', Verney, conversation, 17.7.90.

23. The Peak of German Power

'the deaths of . . .', Pitt,
Special Boat Squadron,
p.32.

'To be out of . . .', Fielding,
Hide and Seek,
p.79.

'a dynamic tubby . . .', Woodhouse,
Something Ventured,
p.8.

'Nobody who did not experience it...', Sweet-Escott,
Baker Street Irregular,
p.73.

'the reddish beard . . .', Leigh Fermor, letter to the author, 28.8.90.

'Mandakas wanted to be . . .', Psychoundakis, conversation, 24.5.90.

'Young man . . .', Manoussakis, conversation, 26.5.90.

'Nearly the whole population . . .', Memorandum, Canea, 1942.

24. The Year of Change

'Germans! You have now . . .', Leigh Fermor, letter, 26.7.90.

'a nice old boy', Stanley, conversation, 4.7.90.

'large, bluff . . .', Hammond,
Venture into Greece,
p. 124.

'none of that Cretan swagger', Fräser, conversation, 12.6.90.

'rather as one would suggest coming to . . .', Stockbridge, conversation, 27.6.90.

'a fox-terrier quivering with eagerness', Rendel, p.18.

'I'm only lighting . . .', Psychoundakis, conversation, 24.5.90.

25. The Italian Armistice

'Chiromantie belief . . .', Deakin,
The Brutal Friendship,
p.183.

'a lot of flattery . . .', Leigh Fermor, conversation, 26.7.90.

'so long the object . . .', Churchill,
Closing the Ring,
p.168.

'Should the Italian troops in Crete and Rhodes .. .', Churchill,
Closing the Ring,
p.167.

'this is a time . . .', Churchill,
Closing the Ring,
p.102.

'If there had been . . .', Leigh Fermor, letter to the author, 14.9.90.

'Ah, ah, mon capitaine!'
Leigh Fermor, letter to the author, 12.10.90.

'And now Greco . . .', quoted Hadjipateras and Fafalios, p.300.

'rotten to the core', quoted Cooper,
Cairo in the War,
p.271.

'a shiny round . . .', Woodhouse,
Something Ventured,
p.8

'What will history . . .', Manoussakis, conversation, 29.9.90.

'more trouble than it was worth', Ciclitira, conversation, 26.6.90.

26. The Abduction of General Kreipe

'As far as the ultimate . . .', Moss,
III Met by Moonlight,
p.39.

Was wollen sie in Kreta?'
Akoumianakis, conversation, 22.5.90.

'NOTIFICATION . . .',
Paratiritis,
Friday, 5 May 1944. 'Everybody felt taller . . .', Manoussakis, conversation, 26.5.90.

'Kreipe Befehl: Wir Folgen!',
Dunbabin, Final Report, p.45.

'care and foresight', text of Decree of Municipal Council of Heraklion 15.2.48, provided by Miki Akoumianakis.

27.
The German Withdrawal

'gather political . . .', Fräser, conversation, 12.6.90.

'Ah, you're back . . .', Lodwick,
The Filibusters,
p.174.

'the stage was . . .', Moss,
A War of Shadows,
p.46.

'Since the . . .', quoted Kokonas,
The German Occupation of Crete,
p.339.

'the impression that . . .', Verney, conversation, 17.7.90.

'Nicht boom-boom!',
Manoussakis, conversation, 26.5.90.

'Keep calm . . .', Verney, conversation, 17.7.90.

'seated in a captured German . . .', Rendel, p.223.

'tell Major . . .', Manoussakis, conversation, 26.5.90, and Verney, 17.7.90.

'Yassou,
Herr Glembin . . .', Psychoundakis, p.232.

28.
The Last Days of the Occupation

'the high-spirited . . .', Psychoundakis, pp.225-6.

'looked like boarders . . .', Seferis,
A Political Diary,
Athens 1979, p.269, quoted Papastratis,
British
Policy Towards Greece During the Second World
War,
p.204.

'the Greek gendarmerie on the corner . . .', Sweet-Escott (an eye-witness to the event), p.226.

'aimed at a political solution', Grambas, 'The Greek Communist Party 1941—1945: The Internal Debate on Seizing Power', published in Sarafis,
Background to Contemporary Greece,
Vol. ii, p. 194.

'a hair-raising walk', Stanley, conversation, 4.7.90.

Very dejected', Ciclitira, conversation, 26.6.90.

'an agreeable example . . .', Hunt, p.46.

'The Cretans strongly resented . . .', Scott Daniell,
Regimental History of the Royal Hampshire
Regiment,
p. 207.

'Ah, Herr Major . . .', Leigh Fermor, conversation, 26.7.90.

'I have seen . . .', dialogue reconstructed, Psychoundakis, conversation, 24.5.90.

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