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Hide And Seek: The Story Of A Wartime Agent
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One Of The Great Books Of The Second World WarAntony BeevorHide And Seek, First Published In 1954 And Unavailable For Many Years, Is Surely Among The Best Wartime Memoirs. It Is Narrated In A Vivid Closeup Style?By A Man Who Spent Two Years In Caves And Other Hideouts In The White Mountains, Venturing To The Coast Only To Guide A Supply Submarine With Flashing Torch, Or To Smuggle Endangered Or Exhausted Colleagues To Safety In Cairo?It Is Remarkable That He Lived To Tell The Tale; That He Does So With Such Modesty, Grace And Humour Is Extraordinary.James Campbell, Times Literary SupplementXan Fielding Was A Gifted, Manysided, Courageous And Romantic Figure, At The Same Time Civilized And Bohemian, And His Thoughtful Cast Of Mind Was Leavened By Humour, Spontaneous Gaiety, And A Dash Of Recklessness. Almost Any Stretch Of His Life Might Be Described As A Picaresque Interlude.Patrick Leigh Fermorin January 1942, Xan Fielding Landed On Germanoccupied Crete With Orders To Disrupt The Resupply Of Rommel'S Afrika Korps And Establish An Intelligence Network In Cooperation With The Cretan Resistance Movement. Working With Bands Of Cretan Partisans, He Succeeded Magnificently. In This Memoir Of His Wartime Exploits, Fielding Presents A Portrait Of The Quintessential English Operativeamateur, Gifted, Daring, And Charming.From The New Foreword By Robert Messenger:Hide And Seek Is A Classic Of British War Literature, An Understated Account Of A Man'S Comingofage Thanks To The Sudden Shouldering Of Great Responsibility. Fielding Is Deprecating About The Dangers And His Own Achievements. It Is Typical Of The Quiet And Reticent Man Who Preferred To Live Outside The Limelight And Wrote Matteroffactly About The War Rather Than With A Gloss Of Adventure Or Heroism. There'S A Scene, Late In 1943, When Fielding And A Group Of Partisans Study The German'S List Of 'Wanted' Men. He Notes 'With Regrettable But Only Human Pride That The Entry Under My Local Pseudonym, Which Outlined In Detail My Physical Characteristics, Aliases And Activities For A Period Of Eighteen Months, Took No Less Than Threequarters Of An Octavo Page In Closelyset Smallpoint Type.' The Germans Had Surely Measured His Worth.Xan Fielding (19181991) Was A British Writer And Traveler, And A Lifelong Friend Of Patrick Leigh Fermor, Who Served With Him In Crete During World War Ii. (The Introduction To Fermor'S A Time Of Gifts Is Written As A Letter To Xan Fielding.) Fielding Also Translated Many Novels From French, Most Notably, The Bridge On The River Kwai And The Planet Of The Apes.Robert Messenger Is The Books Editor Of The Wall Street Journal.
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