Stephanos Pesmazoglou

This book is a review, by Stephanos Pesmazoglou, on Artemis Cooper's biography of Patrick Leigh Fermor, who epitomised the double love affair with England and Greece for the whole period since the late 1930s from the late 1930s until his death in 2011. Additional suspense is provided by his leading the small group that captured General Kreipe, the newly arrived commander of German troops on Crete, which is the book’s centre of gravity. It is A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man who chose to never grow up even when he reached his late 90s.