The Stronghold

The Stronghold: Four Seasons in the White Mountains of Crete / New Foreword by Robert Messenger / 298-page paperback / 5.5" x 8.75" / ISBN 978-1-58988-085-6 / Publication Date: July 2013 "A splendid new edition."—James Campbell, Times Literary Supplement "Xan Fielding was a gifted, many-sided, courageous and romantic figure, at the same time civilized and Bohemian, and his thoughtful cast of mind was leavened by humour, spontaneous gaiety, and a dash of recklessness. Almost any stretch of his life might be described as a picaresque interlude."—Patrick Leigh Fermor During the Second World War, Xan Fielding served for two years as an officer in the British Special Operations Executive on German-occupied Crete, where he ran an intelligence network in cooperation with the Cretan resistance movement. Seven years later, Fielding returned to Crete to spend a year traveling in the island's White Mountains (the "stronghold" of the title), revisiting sites of his wartime exploits and seeking out