fn1 The dining room at Chantilly was adorned with trompe-l’oeil panels by Martin Battersby.
fn2 It was not until some years later that Lady Wentworth allowed Doris Langley Moore full access to the Papers: see Doris Langley Moore, The Great Byron Adventure (New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1959).
fn1 In the ten years that Penelope had to wait for her husband Odysseus to come home from the Trojan wars, a number of suitors had gathered round her. She kept them at bay by telling them she would make her choice when she had finished her tapestry; and every night, she would unpick the work she had done that day.
fn2 National Organization of Cypriot Fighters.
fn1 Gladstone sympathized with the Ionian islanders’ claims for union with Greece, but his mission was not a success. The islands were ceded to Greece in 1863 by a government led by Lord Palmerston.
fn1 Joan’s sister Patricia Kenward had died in 1957.
fn2 Mark Boxer, founder of the Sunday Times Colour Supplement, had agreed to give £1,000 towards financing Paddy’s trip to Mexico: JGM memo, February 1962.
fn3 The gorgona is known to rise out of the sea and seize a boat by its bowsprit, crying ‘Where is Alexander the Great?’ If the sailor answers ‘Alexander the Great lives and reigns!’ all will be well. But if she is given any other reply, she will pull the boat beneath the waves and all aboard will perish.
fn1 Paddy was known to be pro-monarchist, anti-Communist and generally conservative.
fn2 The Colonels announced a crackdown on men with long hair and women in miniskirts.
fn3 Tzannis Tzannetakis would serve as Minister of Tourism, Minister of Works, and was briefly prime minister in 1989.
fn1 Bandouvas’s brothers were suing him, for saying that they had killed German prisoners taken in the Viannos raid against his express orders. Kapetan Petrakogeorgis was suing him for calling his father a sheep-rustling black-marketeer, and the family of Colonel Papadakis (briefly the self-styled leader of the Cretan resistance) were outraged by his insinuations that the Colonel’s wife had had an affair with Jack Smith-Hughes.
fn2 Xan was accused of killing a Cretan andarte, although he was in France at the time and his alleged victim was in prison.
fn1 In a chapter dealing with the aftermath of the German occupation, Antony Beevor described the fate of a Cretan traitor captured by andartes. The man begged for permission to commit suicide. But the andartes ‘broke his legs with heavy stones some way from the edge of a cliff so he had to crawl the rest of the way and push himself over’. See Antony Beevor, Crete: The Battle and the Resistance (John Murray, 1991), p.336.
fn2 These being volume III, a book on Crete and another on Rumania.
Table of Contents
Also by Artemis Cooper
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Maps
A Note on Names
Epigraph
1. Neverland
2. The Plan
3. ‘Zu Fuss nach Konstantinopel’
4. An Enchanted Summer
5. Bulgaria to Mount Athos
6. Balasha
7. An Intelligence Officer
8. Crete and General Carta
9. Setting the Trap
10. The Hussar Stunt
11. The British Institute, Athens
12. The Caribbean
13. Writing The Traveller’s Tree
14. Travels in Greece
15. Byron’s Slippers
16. Cyprus
17. In Africa and Italy
18. A Visit to Rumania
19. A Monastery Built for Two
20. Shifts in Perspective
21. ‘For now the time of gifts is gone’
Appendices
I: A Note on the Green Diary and ‘A Youthful Journey’
II: Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Walk across Europe, 1933–5
III: Horace’s Ode 1.9, ‘To Thaliarchus’, translated by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Acknowledgements
Illustration Acknowledgements
Notes
Select Bibliography
Picture Section
Footnotes
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