Crete: The Battle And The Resistance - Plot & Excerpts
The battle and the resistance @page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; } Part One The Fall of Greece 1 Military Missions On the night after the last British troops left the beaches of Dunkirk, a tall man with a glass eye said goodbye to his wife on the steps of the Oxford and Cambridge Club. It was the eve of his departure by flying-boat for Greece. They never saw each other again. A year later, badly wounded in the battle for Crete, he was propped against a wall by German paratroopers and shot. Although an archaeologist, and an Old Wykehamist of conventional background, John Pendlebury was a vigorous romantic. He carried a swordstick which he claimed was the perfect weapon against parachutists. In Crete it became an even more famous trademark than the glass eye which he used to leave on his desk to indicate his absence from Heraklion whenever he left for the mountains to confer with guerrilla kapitans. Like many dons and archaeologists, he had been canvassed in 1938 by a special department in the War Office known as MI(R) — Military Intelligence (Research) — a forerunner of Special Operations Executive.
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