Simply astonishing brilliant man.........his work with Greek resistance fighters against the Germans just a strand ......he had the lot brilliant analytical skills......
...,and I hace only recently discovered that Paddy is distantly related to me (something like 2nd cousin, once removed) - and the more I discover about this man, the more I am in admiration of him.,
I went on my own Leigh-Fermor journey last year and visited Heidelberg. The Red Ox is a fancy restaurant now, it was quite the disappointment entering!
I had been looking for this on and off for two years until I finally gave up. I'm happy I decided to google Paddy's name today. Thank you for uploading!
I am currently recently republished TheTravellers Tree .Born and raised in the Caribbean and familiar and stayed in the Islands he visited ring true .It's a treat.
09-12-23: An excellent book indeed. Avoid Sisman's abortion (incompetent, boring editor of Fermor Letters) and go straight to the Ann Fleming Letters volume.
"The Letters of Ann Fleming [1913-1981]," edited by Mark Amory [1941- ]; Collins Harvill [publishers] (1985 hardcover).-----Amory's Introduction is marvelous, save at the end when too much information is packed into obese paragraphs (easily fixable. Get your red pen out).-----Ann Fleming had almost no formal education, yet wrote incomparably better than a thousand fools with Oxbridge degrees. To her, there were no sacred cows.-----Much wit and interesting information about (the oft-infuriating) Ian Fleming, her 3rd husband. Excellent letters written to her by her friends are included.-----The book's technicals, with one flaw, are perfect (the footnotes should be on the same page as the footnoted words. They're inconveniently Japanese-subfiled at the end of each letter, which interrupts the reading flow. Suggested: Read the FNs first, before the letters).----A winner.@@lemorab1
@@donreedThank you!!! This is going to be the next book I check out of the library. (I liked "In Tearing Haste" a lot more than "Dashing For The Post.) Ann Fleming has seemed like an interesting character --- such a fraught life with Ian Fleming. If I'd been married to him, I think I would've killed him.
Ann Charteris Fleming (born on 06-19-13): Natal Sun 45* Venus; natal Sun Conjunct Pluto; and natal Venus 45* Pluto.-----It's an interlocked trio; the 3rd one is the poison; makes for volatile, self-destructive sexual attractions and, generally speaking, failed marriages (NOT ALWAYS).-----In other words, Ian is the only one that could pull the pin on her grenade, and he would have to be equally at times impossible to tolerate, much less love.-----It's a 50-50% deal. I've known people like Ann and Ian.-----I've found them to be excellent friends, terrible fathers and mothers, and can dartboard and cement a bad personal relationship from 300 feet out at 2:37 am in the pitch-black dark.-----For the Anns and Ians, this is a homing instinct. They auto-respond. They never learn.@@lemorab1
Just recently introduced to Patrick Leigh Fermor's book the Broken Road by Rosie and Hugh Norie. They said "You must read this by Patrick Leigh fermor, who was one of the world's most wonderful travell writers." And they are absolutely right. What an amazing life , and wonderful man !!
09-12-23: Too bad editor Sisman ruined PLF's Letters collection (pulped). Highly recommend the PLF-Debo Letters book, and also the Ann Fleming Letters.
Benedict,your so….so.living in someone else’s achievement to my way of thinking,at least I have my own land in Greece,…actually Benedict old chap,rather near Kalamitsi ,PLF,s home.
Patricia Walker This was the third in a set of three broadcasts on different travel writers. This particular one was broadcast 7 Aug 2008, and made earlier that year, I suspect.
@@SaabUB Laura Marshall, the executive producer for Icon films, told me probably 8-10yrs ago that the BBC commissioned the whole project after 'Paddy' was knighted in 2004. Cut a long story short, filming actually began in Sept' 2006 and even though the 'first in the can', it was the last to be broadcast..
