Kidnap in Crete (40 page)
Authors: Rick Stroud
| | ‘Dear Annette, Well’: Leigh Fermor letter to Annette Crean, IWM/Annette Street/ 95 / 34 / 1 . |
‘It is absolutely grand’: Rendel letter to Annette Crean, IWM/Annette Street/
95
/
34
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1
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| | ‘At dawn the guerrillas’: Rendel, p. 138 . |
| | ‘Leigh Fermor found the waiting’: SOE Report, NLS/PLF/ 13338 / 19 . |
| | ‘Half asleep, he sensed’: Rendel, p. 140 . |
| | ‘The abbot offered them’: ibid., p. 151 . |
| | ‘Through her brother’: eyewitness account, CEMA. |
| | ‘This time the captain’: Moss, Ill Met By Moonlight , p. 27 . |
| | ‘Billy Moss was not prepared’: ibid., p. 34 . |
| | ‘Moss was excited’: Moss, unpublished diary, IWM, 05 / 74 / 1 . |
| | ‘Moss thought that’: ibid. |
| | ‘The party had to cross’: Harokopos, Abduction , p. 82 . |
‘They awoke the next morning’: Moss,
Moonlight
,
p.
40
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| | ‘John Stanley passed out’: The Diary of William Stanley Moss. |
| | ‘Moss watched Rendel’: Moss, Moonlight , p. 42 . |
| | ‘Manolis Paterakis recognised’: Mamalakis. |
| | ‘Moss came to realise’: Moss, diary. |
‘Like Manolis Paterakis’: Mamalakis.
| | ‘Later, the women’: Moss, Moonlight , p. 51 . |
| | ‘The next day they woke’: Moss, Moonlight , p. 51 . |
‘The presence of the military hospital’: author interview, Mamalakis.
| | ‘That evening they filled’: Manolis Paterakis, eyewitness account, CEMA. |
‘Outside Heraklion the bus’: SOE report, NLS/PLF/
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19
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| | ‘Military policemen with whistles’: ibid. |
‘Leigh Fermor found’: Leigh Fermor, ‘Abducting a General’,
handwritten MS, NLS/PLF/
13338
/
31
.
‘Back at the Zografakis’: Moss,
Moonlight
, p.
54
.
| | ‘A natural undercover agent’: CEMA. |
| | ‘The building was surrounded’: ibid. |
‘Micky’s sister, Philia’: Taxatake, with Kalogerakis,
The Legendary Capture of General Kreipe
, pp.
81
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91
.
| | ‘Leigh Fermor and Akoumianakis’: Leigh Fermor, ‘Abducting a General’. |
‘While they stood’: unnumbered photographs,
Kreipe Reunion
, NLS/PLF
13338
.
| | ‘Micky had a friend’: Mamalakis. |
‘In the remote cave’: Moss,
Moonlight
,
p.
59
.
| | ‘Chnarakis was grandfather’: Harokopos, Abduction , p. 110 . |
‘The Cretans crushed’: Leigh Fermor, ‘Abducting a General’.
‘Ilias offered to go back’:
Abduction.
‘The briefing over’: Manoli Paterakis, CEMA.
| | ‘In the late morning’: Leigh Fermor, ‘Abducting a General’. |
| | ‘He was keeping a written’: author interview with Mr C. E. Mamalakis. |
| | ‘At dusk the twenty-five-strong’: ibid. |
‘A few minutes later’: Moss,
Moonlight
,
p.
73
.
| | ‘Moss found the going’: ibid., p. 75 . |
| | ‘A resistance worker in the city’: Harokopos, p. 116 . |
| | ‘Later that night the team’: Leigh Fermor, NLS/PLF/ 13338 / 31 . |
| | ‘Later that day Leigh Fermor’: CEMA. |
| | ‘The next day Zografistos’: Harokopos, p. 119 . |
‘Tyrakis wondered who else’: Giorgios Tyrakis, eyewitness account, CEMA.
‘He and Micky Akoumianakis’: Letter Giorgios Tyrakis to Mr C. E. Mamalakis, CEMA.
| | ‘Zoidakis appeared at around two’: NLS/PLF/ 13338 / 31 . |
‘At midday Pavlo’: Harokopos, p.
129
.
| | ‘The next day dawned’: NLS/PLF/ 13338 / 31 . |
| | ‘The two men agreed’: ibid. |
| | ‘That evening, in the officers’ mess’: P. Akoumianakis, CEMA. |
‘Moss worried that’: Moss,
Moonlight
,
p.
96
.
| | ‘Mitsos Tzatzas ran across’: Manoli Paterakis eyewitness account, CEMA. |
| | ‘Billy Moss who’: Moss, unpublished diary. |
| | ‘Kreipe settled into the leather’: NLS/PLF/ 13338 / 31 . |
| | ‘Through the windscreen’: ibid. |
| | ‘Zografistos saw something’: Antonios Papaleonidas, eyewitness account, CEMA. Years after the war, Zografistos would show off the medal. He also had a gun stolen from Leigh Fermor. |
| | ‘Kreipe began to shout’: NLS/PLF/ 13338 / 31 & NLS/PLF/ 13338 / 1 . |
| | ‘Leigh Fermor could’: Powell. The Villa Ariadne , p. 177 . In an interview with Dilys Powell Kreipe denied that he had given his word not to shout and said that he had successfully taken out an injunction preventing Moss’s book Ill Met By Moonlight and the film of the same name being distributed in Germany on the grounds that it defamed his character. |
‘Moss drove fast’: CEMA.
‘From somewhere on the terrace’: ibid.
| | ‘Ahead Moss could see’: author interview, Mr C. E. Mamalakis. |
| | ‘From the back of the car’: NLS/PLF/ 13338 / 31 & NLS/PLF/ 13338 / 1 . |
‘Manolis and Stratis slid’: CEMA.
| | ‘There were a lot of soldiers’: CEMA. |
‘finally he decapitated him’: author interview, Mamalakis.
‘Leigh Fermor said all’: NLS/PLF/
13338
/
1
.
| | ‘From the back of the car’: Moss, unpublished diary. |
| | ‘Ahead of them a familiar figure’: CEMA. |
| | ‘As it got lighter’: Moss, Moonlight , p. 108 . |
| | ‘He approached a woman’: Giorgios Frangoulitakis, typewritten fragment, ‘The Eagles of Mount Ida’, translated and annotated by Leigh Fermor. NLS/PLF/ 13338 / 30 . |
‘The Cretans had’: ibid.
‘Manoli held his’: Paterakis, CEMA.
| | ‘Tom Dunbabin was lying low’: Giorgios Frangoulitakis, typewritten fragment ‘The Eagles of Mount Ida’, translated and annotated by Leigh Fermor. NLS/PLF/ 13338 / 30 . |
| | ‘Paterakis recalled the time’: author interview with Mr C. E. Mamalakis. |
| | ‘The graffiti were’: the Cretans did not know that this Gothic script, known as Schwabacher Judenlettern , had been banned in Germany as being Jewish. On Hitler’s orders Martin Bormann had issued a proclamation which contained the order: ‘Authorities will refrain from using the Schwabacher Jew letters in future.’ |
‘To Leigh Fermor’: NLS/PLF/
13338
/
30
.
‘Lo Mount Soracte’: trans. Geoffrey Matthews.
| | ‘Kreipe jolting along’: Moss, unpublished diary. |
| | ‘His name was John Lewis’: He had entered into the Cretan spirit with gusto, at one point executing a spy by breaking the man’s neck with this bare hands. Lefteris Kalitsounakis, eyewitness account, CEMA. |
‘Moss became more’: Moss, unpublished diary, IWM/
05
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74
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1
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| | ‘When he was asked’: Giorgios Kalogirakis/Mamalakis interview, CEMA. |
| | ‘We had both drunk’: NLS/PLF/ 13338 / 1 . On the MS in the NLS Leigh Fermor has written: ‘I am not sure this is the location for this incident.’ On his annotated and fragmentary translation of the ‘Eagles of Mount Ida’, Leigh Fermor says that the exchange took place several days later under some very dense pear trees in a ‘sown field’. I think this is the most likely place. I have found it impossible to identify where in time and space the ‘sown field’ is, so have left the incident here. |
