About the Author

George Psychoundakis was born in Crete in 1920. After a brief period of schooling he lived as a shepherd until the beginning of the German occupation in 1941, when he joined the Cretan resistance as a runner. He was later awarded the BEM.

Reviews

Full of death, and the excitement of a fighter who wildly enjoys his own part of the dangerous business
*Sunday Times*

Unique
*The Times Literary Supplement*