Crete 1941: A Doctor's Escape - Couverture souple

Tredre, Ralph Ford

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798393095857

Editeur : Independently published, 2025

Synopsis

The wartime letters and writings of Major Ralph Ford Tredre, perhaps the last to be discovered from the Greek Campaign of 1941, are a detailed and evocative account of how an unassuming middle-aged malariologist, who volunteered on the outbreak of war to serve in the Royal Army Medical Corps, found himself on the frontline in the Evacuation of Greece and the Battle of Crete in 1941. He met archaeologist John Pendlebury and fighter ace Pat Pattle, escaped from a POW camp with future SOE operative Jack Smith-Hughes, and was rescued by submarine HMS Torbay by Lieutenant Commander Anthony Miers (later awarded the Victoria Cross). He wrote to his wife Betty: "I feel some elation that the children will be thrilled that Daddy put one across the Hun. The war has not yet begun in the Middle East, so they say. Well, I have been bombed, blasted, machine gunned, taken prisoner, escaped. Not bad at 41. What a tale I will tell you one day, absolutely fantastic and incredible but it has not give me many more grey hairs."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798393095857
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 209
• Éditeur: Tredre Roger F
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