Rick Stroud’s Kidnap
in Crete: The True Story of the Abduction of a Nazi General, is certainly
entertainment history. Terrible things occur
in the recounting of this story, but Stroud does not dwell on them. He has a factual sense of the violence of
war; he tends not to judge his heroes.
Even the enemies of this tale aren’t given a firm drubbing.
In the end, everyone involved in this story, and the
kidnappers themselves, wonder if abducting one German general was worth the
cost. There is no way to know with certainty; the
British intelligence people who interviewed General Kreipe certainly did not
think so; he provided very little intelligence of value.
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