From the October 2016 Issue Playing Away Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor By Adam Sisman (ed)
From the November 2014 Issue Kidnapped Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete By Patrick Leigh Fermor
From the September 2013 Issue The Final Leg The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos By Patrick Leigh Fermor (Edited by Colin Thubron & Artemis Cooper) LR
From the July 2007 Issue The Cretan Lawrence The Rash Adventurer: A Life of John Pendlebury By Imogen Grundon, with a Foreword by Patrick Leigh Fermor LR
From the March 2006 Issue A Twentieth-Century Gentleman A British Achilles: The Story of George, 2nd Earl Jellicoe By Lorna Almonds Windmill, with a foreword by Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor LR
From the October 2003 Issue Well Met By Moonlight Words of Mercury By Patrick Leigh Fermor, Artemis Cooper (ed) LR
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