The wartime exploits of "Kapetan Vasili", New Zealander Dudley Churchill Perkins, have become a legend on Crete.
He first arrived on Crete following the Allied withdrawal from Greece, and was then captured by the Germans. He escaped within two weeks and spent a year avoiding German patrols and roaming Western Crete in search of a way to leave the island, before being evacuated to Egypt by a Greek submarine.
He was so impressed by the Cretans΄ assistance to him that he left his New Zealand unit and joined the British Special Operations Executive and returned to Crete as a special agent, taking command of a guerilla band which he trained, organised, and led in numerous attacks against the Germans.
Vasili is the result of several years of research by Murray Elliott, including interviews with Cretan resistance fighters and Perkins΄ S.O.E. colleagues. For the first time, the full story can be told.
Murray Elliott (Συγγραφέας)
Murray Elliott was born in Auckland in 1918 and educated at Auckland Gramar School. He worked on the New Zealand Herald editorial staff before serving with the New Zealand forces in the Pacific and the Middle East. He joined the Australian Associated Press in London in 1946 and from 1949 he spent ten years with Reuters in Fleet Street before joining the BBC and working in the External Services news department for twenty years. He was London Correspondent for Radio New Zealand for fourteen years and edited New Zealand News (U.K.) for six. As well as broadcasts and programmes in Britain and New Zealand, he has written on a wide variety of topics for international publications.
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