Vasili - The Lion of Crete - The Heroic Story of a New Zealand Special Agent Behind Enemy Lines During World War II

Century Hutchinson, 1987. Hardback with DW in good used condition. Fading to the spine of the DW.
The wartime explots of `Kapetan Vasili', New Zealander Dudley Churchill Perkins, have become a legend on Crete. He first arrived on Crete following the Alied withdrawal from Greece, and was then captured by the Germans. He escaped within two weeks and spent a year avoiding German patrols and roaming Western Crete in search of a way to leave the island, before being evacuated by Egypt by a Greek submarine. He was so impressed by the Cretans' assistance to him that he left his New Zealand unit and joined the British Secret Operations Executive and returned to Crete as a special agent, taking command of a guerrilla band which he trained, organized and led in numerous attacks against the Germans. Vasili is the result of several years of research by Elliott, including interviews with Cretan resistance fighters and Perkins' SOE colleagues...