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Crete. Europe - Greece. Region. Longitude: 25.0000. Latitude: 35.1667.

 Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Annotated map of Crete, in 3 parts, used by Patrick Leigh Fermor during the Kreipe operation., [1944].

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13338/373
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series consists of manuscript and typescript drafts and printed items by Patrick Leigh Fermor, his associates, and others, with correspondence and related material, much of it in Greek.

Dates: [1944].

Assorted photographs relating to Crete., 1975-1991.

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Identifier: Acc.13338/628
Scope and Contents

Includes photographs of:

Christening of Ioanna Tsangarakis, Crete, 1975.

The unveiling of the SOE Resistance Monument at Heraklion on the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Crete, 1981.

Visit of Patrick Leigh Fermor and Manoli Paterakis to New York, 1983.

Celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Crete, 1991. See also Acc.13338/664.

Dates: 1975-1991.

Other photographs relating to Crete during and after World War II, and to the war more generally., [1930-2000].

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Identifier: Acc.13338/629
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The archive consists of extensive correspondence from fans, friends and associates, including the poet Sir John Betjeman, painter Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, and Leigh Fermor's principal publisher John 'Jock' Murray. There are also literary manuscripts and typescripts, often with numerous annotations and revisions, diaries, notebooks, photographs, articles and research papers concerning most aspects of his and Joan's life, work and interests, including wide-ranging material on the war, in...
Dates: [1930-2000].

Photographs taken by WIlliam Stanley Moss and others in Crete during the occupation, including photographs of the arrival of General Kreipe in Egypt., [1941-1945].

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Identifier: Acc.13338/623
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The archive consists of extensive correspondence from fans, friends and associates, including the poet Sir John Betjeman, painter Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, and Leigh Fermor's principal publisher John 'Jock' Murray. There are also literary manuscripts and typescripts, often with numerous annotations and revisions, diaries, notebooks, photographs, articles and research papers concerning most aspects of his and Joan's life, work and interests, including wide-ranging material on the war, in...
Dates: [1941-1945].

Wartime sketch book of Patrick Leigh Fermor, including sketches of Albania, Crete and Palestine., 1941.

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Identifier: Acc.13338/665
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The archive consists of extensive correspondence from fans, friends and associates, including the poet Sir John Betjeman, painter Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, and Leigh Fermor's principal publisher John 'Jock' Murray. There are also literary manuscripts and typescripts, often with numerous annotations and revisions, diaries, notebooks, photographs, articles and research papers concerning most aspects of his and Joan's life, work and interests, including wide-ranging material on the war, in...
Dates: 1941.