Patrick Leigh Fermor

Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor, known as 'Paddy', (born 11 February 1915, London) is a British author, scholar and soldier, who played a prominent role behind the lines in the Battle of Crete during World War II. He is famous in the genre of travel literature.

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Leigh Fermor's father, Sir Lewis, was a distinguished geologist. Shortly after his birth, his mother left to join his father in India, leaving him behind with another family. As a child, Leigh Fermor had problems with academic structure and limitations. As a result, he was sent to a school for difficult children. He was thrown out of his school, King's School, Canterbury, for holding hands with a local greengrocer's daughter. He carried on educating himself, reading texts on Greek, Latin, Shakespeare and History with the plan for him to get into Sandhurst, the Military Academy.

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Battle of Crete: The Battle of Crete (German Luftlandeschlacht um Kreta; Greek ???? ??? ??????) began on the morning of May 20 1941, during World War II, when Germany launched an airborne invasion under the code-name Unternehmen Merkur (Operation Mercury). The operation was successful in terms of taking the island f...

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