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Ill Met by Moonlight movie trailer
The final movie from the famed Powell and Pressburger partnership starring Dirk Bogarde (as Paddy), Cyril Cusack (as Captain Sandy Rendel), David Oxley (as W. Stanley “Billy” Moss, M.C.)and the superb...
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Xan Fielding Obituary
After much searching I can bring you what I believe to be the only on-line obituary to Xan Fielding which I have retyped from the Daily Telegraph Second Book of Obituaries: Heroes and Adventurers. This...
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A photograph of Xan and Daphne Fielding with Dirk Bogarde
Xan and Daphne Fielding with Dirk Bogarde on the set of Ill Met by Moonlight Related category: Ill Met by Moonlight
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Wandering scholar and war hero: the traveller’s tale
By Peter Terzian November 27, 2005 On the telephone from his home in Greece, Patrick Leigh Fermor describes what he does as “travel writing” but adds “I hate the phrase.” Indeed, calling him a travel...
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Well Met By Sunlight
This is from an excellent website devoted to Powell and Pressburger the producers of Ill Met by Moonlight, and recalls the Fielding’s first meeting with Dirk Bogarde. By Daphne Fielding (wife of...
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Washington Post obituary: Patrick Leigh Fermor, British adventurer, writer...
By Matt Schudel First Published in The Washington Post, Sunday, June 12 2011 Long before Patrick Leigh Fermor died June 10 at age 96, his extraordinary achievements as a writer, adventurer and war hero...
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Xan Fielding Obituary
I am reposting this obituary to Xan Fielding at this time as he was Paddy’s very good friend, the one to whom Paddy wrote his open letters at the start of A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the...
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Ill Met by Moonlight on BBC iPlayer until 5 September
Just a quick post. It appears that the Dirk Bogarde movie is on BBC iPlayer for those of you who can access it until 5 September. Click here to access the site.
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Everyone fell in love with Paddy Leigh Fermor
Like all those who met Patrick Leigh Fermor, his biographer Artemis Cooper found the travel writer and war hero utterly beguiling. By Allison Pearson First published in the Daily Telegraph 28 Sep 2012...
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Items from Paddy’s archive
The news about the opening of Paddy’s archive to the public was quite exciting. It may herald some new studies into the life of this gifted but flawed man. I had a bit of a sneak around the National...
View ArticleEscape from Fortress Crete
In one of the most audacious feats of World War II, two British undercover agents and a group of Greek partisans in Nazi-occupied Crete kidnapped General Heinrich Kreipe, the commander of the German...
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