The Ariadne Objective: The Underground War to Rescue Crete from the Nazis (Hardcover) by Wes Davis

from Lirmac

I wasn't expecting too much from this book as there are a good many on the subject, including primary sources. However, The Ariadne Objective is highly readable, and draws all of the available material into an easily-comprehensible narrative. The characterisation of the protagonists is skillfully...

from cblaker

This book reads like an enjoyable adventure novel. I say adventure rather than war, because although there is death in the book, mostly it is vague and does not occur to central figures in the book. The grimness of a book about say the Russian Front is absent here. Crete was a peaceful backwater ...

from Ronrose1

This book recounts the struggle on Crete to resist the German and to a lesser extent Italian Forces which occupied the island from 1940 to 1945. The Cretan partisans supported and fought alongside the British spies of the SOE, Special Operations Executive. Often referred to as Churchill's secret ...

from EowynA

This story of the WWII struggle in Crete follows the British allies. It starts with a bang - Paddy Leigh Fermor parachuting to a plateau in Crete during a storm so severe it prevents the rest of his party from joining him. The book is in two parts. The first chapter follows Leigh Fermor (both are...

from SeriousGrace

The Ariadne Objective was a plot to infiltrate the island of Crete while it was under German occupation. Four unlikely soldiers are chosen as spies, as saboteurs, and ultimately as abductors, in an effort to thwart the Nazis and their maneuvers in Greece. Each intelligence officer brought a diffe...