[ilds] The Ariadne Objective

[Bruce Redwine]

Lawrence Durrell???  That would be news.  If I'm not mistaken, W. Stanley Moss in his Ill Met by Moonlight (1950), the first-hand account of that famous British commando raid, makes no mention of Lawrence Durrell, who, I believe, had nothing to do with British military operations in WWII.  Waugh, Dahl, and Fermor did serve in the British military.


Bruce

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>Subject: [ilds] The Ariadne Objective
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>*Writers at War
>Matthew Thornton -- Publishers Weekly, 5/19/2008
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>Harmony exec editor John Glusman bought world rights to The Ariadne 
>Objective by Wes Davis via Neil Olson. It tells the story of British 
>Special Operations forces on Crete in WWII who, aided by the Greek 
>resistance, brazenly kidnapped the German general in command of land 
>forces, and stars some of the leading literary lights of the 
>day---Evelyn Waugh, Roald Dahl, Lawrence Durrell and Patrick Leigh 
>Fermor. Davis served for three years as assistant to the director of 
>excavations at Kavousi in eastern Crete, just north of where SOE landed 
>supplies for this daring exploit. Publication is slated for 2011.
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>http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6561931.html?industryid=47146