Paddy fermor biography examples

          Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor DSO OBE (11 February – 10 June ) was an English writer, scholar, soldier and polyglot.!

          Historical Heroes: Patrick Leigh Fermor

          There was a moment during Patrick Leigh Fermor’s daring operation to kidnap a German general and spirit him out of Crete that made me realise Paddy is my ‘Historical Hero.’ I read about it again recently in Artemis Cooper’s extraordinarily good biography.

          Traveller and writer Paddy Leigh Fermor is best known for two events.

        1. Traveller and writer Paddy Leigh Fermor is best known for two events.
        2. Patrick Leigh Fermor was born on the 11th February His father was a successful scientist, who later became Director of the Geological Survey of India.
        3. Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor DSO OBE (11 February – 10 June ) was an English writer, scholar, soldier and polyglot.
        4. The handsome and adventurous Patrick Leigh Fermor, who died in June , was a distinguished travel writer and leading authority on modern Greece.
        5. Patrick Leigh Fermor is practically a cult figure, often said to be the best travel writer of the 20th century.

          6. The small band of Cretan resistance fighters and SOE personnel, along with their charge, General Heinrich Kreipe, are climbing Mount Ida, the birthplace of Zeus, on their way southwards to a rendezvous on the coast with the Royal Navy who would take the general to Cairo.

          They find a cave for the night before resuming their journey across the mountainous terrain the next day. As the sun rose above the summit of Ida, on a cold morning after a sleepless night, Kreipe recited Horace:

           

          Vides ut alta stet nive candidum Soracte…

          See Soracte’s mighty peak stands deep in virgin snow

           

          And Paddy completed the poem for him, which he had translated long before whilst at King’s Canterbu