{"product_id":"9781590179055","title":"The Cretan Runner: His Story of the German Occupation","description":"George Psychoundakis was a twenty-one-year-old shepherd from the village  of Asi Gonia when the battle of Crete began: “It was in May 1941 that,  all of a sudden, high in the sky, we heard the drone of many aeroplanes  growing steadily closer.” The German parachutists soon outnumbered the  British troops who were forced first to retreat, then to evacuate,  before Crete fell to the Germans. So began the Cretan Resistance and the  young shepherd’s career as a wartime runner. In this unique account of  the Resistance, Psychoundakis records the daily life of his fellow  Cretans, his treacherous journeys on foot from the eastern White  Mountains to the western slopes of Mount Ida to transmit messages and  transport goods, and his enduring friendships with British officers  (like his eventual translator Patrick Leigh Fermor) whose missions he  helped to carry out with unflagging courage, energy, and good humor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncludes thirty-two black-and-white photographs and a map.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157347942640,"sku":"9781590179055","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590179055_p0.jpg?v=1763808809","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590179055","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}