"ΚΥΝΗΓΩΝΤΑΣ ΤΗΝ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΑ"
Sandy Thomas
Ιστορική Έρευνα - Απόδοση
Γιώργος Γ. Σπανός
"Kυνηγώντας Την Ελευθερία" (Dare to be Free, by W.B. 'Sandy' Thomas)
One of the most famous and greatest true stories of World War II has been finally published in Greek. The Adventure of a young New Zealand Officer who fought bravely in the battle of Crete in 1941, but captured and shipped by the Germans to the Greek mainland as one of their prisoners. Despite being severely wounded he attempted several dramatic escapes, including being carried out of the POW Nazi camp in a coffin.
He finally succeeded in a spectacular escape, and made his way from Salonica across Northern Greece to Mount Athos, a rocky peninsula populated for centuries by Orthodox Christian Monks. There he evaded capture with the help of the monks for over a year, before finally navigating his way through winter seas to Smyrna and then to Syria where he met his NZ Battalion and his own brother.
One of the great escape narratives, sold more than 500,000 copies so far, enriched in Greek with more clues and notes from George G. Spanos who followed and researched Thomas' adventurous pathway while adopting his story in Greek.
This version contains as an epilogue, our rare edition A Visit to Mount Athos, November 1944 in Greek!
Paperback: 386 pages
Publisher: Athos Press (November 19, 2015)
Language: Greek
ISBN-10: 0991265351
ISBN-13: 978-0991265350
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
One of the most famous and greatest true stories of World War II has been finally published in Greek. The Adventure of a young New Zealand Officer who fought bravely in the battle of Crete in 1941, but captured and shipped by the Germans to the Greek mainland as one of their prisoners. Despite being severely wounded he attempted several dramatic escapes, including being carried out of the POW Nazi camp in a coffin.
He finally succeeded in a spectacular escape, and made his way from Salonica across Northern Greece to Mount Athos, a rocky peninsula populated for centuries by Orthodox Christian Monks. There he evaded capture with the help of the monks for over a year, before finally navigating his way through winter seas to Smyrna and then to Syria where he met his NZ Battalion and his own brother.
One of the great escape narratives, sold more than 500,000 copies so far, enriched in Greek with more clues and notes from George G. Spanos who followed and researched Thomas' adventurous pathway while adopting his story in Greek.
This version contains as an epilogue, our rare edition A Visit to Mount Athos, November 1944 in Greek!
Paperback: 386 pages
Publisher: Athos Press (November 19, 2015)
Language: Greek
ISBN-10: 0991265351
ISBN-13: 978-0991265350
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
'Quite astonishing war adventures ...
written with the personal modesty which characterizes most brave men'
Observer
written with the personal modesty which characterizes most brave men'
Observer