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Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor, OBE, DSO was of English and Irish descent. After his stormy schooldays, followed by his walk across Europe to Constantinople, he lived and travelled in the Balkans and the Greek Archipelago acquiring a deep interest in languages and remote places. He was an army officer who played a prominent role behind the lines in the Battle of Crete during World War II. He lived partly in Greece in a house he designed with his wife Joan in an olive grove in the Mani, and partly in Worcestershire. He was widely regarded as "Britain's greatest living travel writer".
1977
1953
The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete
2014
1986
The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor
2016
1996
Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
1958
Further Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor
2018
A Life in Letters
2017
Travels in Northern Greece
1966
From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
2013
A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands
1950
1953
1991
Tales from a Lifetime of Travel
2003