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Playing Away – Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor (literaryreview.co.uk)
9 points by Thevet on Oct 20, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Fermor's biography by his friend Diana Cooper's daughter (Artemis) is an incredible, rollicking piece of work, like the man himself.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/books/review/patrick-leigh...

After plowing through his wildly manic, romantic travels and escapades (including the most daring raid of WW II, when he kidnapped the commandant of the Nazi occupation in Crete mid-day), one feels very small and un-alive by comparison.

What a life! (Though, ultimately you get the sense that he wasn't fulfilled by all the escapades.)

Absolutely worth a read.




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