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