• Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor DSO OBE (11 February 1915 – 10 June 2011) was an English writer, scholar, soldier and polyglot. He played a prominent...
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    Monsell, Lady Leigh Fermor, formerly Rayner (5 February 1912 – 4 June 2003) was an English photographer and wife of author Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor. She was...
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  • The Patrick Leigh Fermor Archive is a collection of over 10,000 items of correspondence, literary manuscripts, articles and research papers, diaries, passports...
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  • occupied Crete in April 1944, he was abducted by British SOE officers Patrick Leigh Fermor and William Stanley Moss, with the support of the Cretan resistance...
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    and traveller Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor. Fermor was born in Peckham in south London, the eldest of six children born to Lewis Fermor and Maria (née James);...
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    saboteurs.[citation needed] Resistance in Crete involved figures such as Patrick Leigh Fermor, George Psychoundakis, George Petrakogiorgis, Manolis Bandouvas,...
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    The operation was launched on 4 February 1944, when SOE officer Patrick Leigh Fermor landed in Crete with the intention of abducting notorious war criminal...
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  • island of Crete is occupied by the Nazis. British officers Major Patrick Leigh Fermor DSO (Dirk Bogarde) and Captain Bill Stanley Moss MC (David Oxley)...
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  • by British author Patrick Leigh Fermor. Published by John Murray when the author was 62, it is a memoir of the first part of Fermor's journey on foot across...
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  • The Broken Road (2013) is a travel book by British author Patrick Leigh Fermor. Published posthumously by John Murray, the book, edited and introduced...
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