If it hadn't been for the shopkeeper in Heraklion, Cotton might never have been involved ...In the spring of 1941 the Nazis were storming their way through Greece. The Loukia was crucial to the British cause and the Greek resistance - and her cargo even more so. When the Loukia is wrecked in enemy territory, the British gathered together a handful of volunteers for a dangerous misson of retrieval: two RASC men, some sailors, one German-speaking airman and Mihale Andoni Cotonou - otherwise known as Corporal Cotton of the Marines.