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.)
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.