Author Topic: Patrick Leigh Fermor  (Read 6865 times)

Offline harribobs

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Patrick Leigh Fermor
« on: June 14, 2011, 10:33:35 PM »
Paddy sadly passed away on the 10th June, a hero in Cretan and British history

Fondly remembered for the kidnapping of General Kreipe, later made into a film (ill met by moonlight)\ he was a superb travel writer, describing a europe now disappeared

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Re: Patrick Leigh Fermor
« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2011, 08:20:19 PM »
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it!  No matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and with your own common sense" ~ Buddha

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Re: Patrick Leigh Fermor
« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2011, 11:07:59 PM »
thanks Wendi


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