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Cretan resistance.- Fermor (Patrick Leigh).- Smith-Hughes (John) World War II Photograph Album documenting people in the Cretan resistance, c.1940-1945.

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⁂ An excellent album of photographs from the Second World War, documenting the Cretan resistance of 1941-1945. The photographs were taken by Major John Smith-Hughes (barrister and soldier, 1918-1994), who was taken captive by Austrian Alpine troops and remained prisoner for a month before his escape. Hiding in the house of Colonel Andreas Papadakis with the assistance of George Psychoundakis, 'The Cretan Runner',Smith-Hughes was later summoned to SOE's Cairo headquarters and returned to Crete with Ralph Stockbridgeof MI6 for intelligence work. Smith-Hughes went on to brief "Monty" Woodhouse's successor, Tom Dunbabin, and his two deputies - Xan Fielding and Patrick Leigh Fermor. Pictured are many of these people, including a photograph of Patrick Leigh Fermor, as well as German parachutist troops in action, the British camp prison, a 'scene of German execution in Kallikrate', and views of Dramia and Georgioupolis, the first German held position, amongst others.

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