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Re:Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Life in Letters by gadders on Thursday December 14, 2017 @09:11AM (#15922333)
More details on the kidnapping of General Kreipe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnap_of_Heinrich_Kreipe
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Re:Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Life in Letters by gadders on Thursday December 14, 2017 @09:15AM (#15922350)
And if you want some ideas on how they managed, it fitness-wise: http://www.chrismcdougall.com/buy-natural-born-heroes-from-t...

(Written by the author of Born to Run).

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Re:Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Life in Letters by cpr on Thursday December 14, 2017 @01:47PM (#15925366)
The amazing thing is that Paddy himself (the leader of this daring raid) was just a normal English schoolboy, until he set off on his walk across Europe at age 16 or so...
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