Hide and Seek

Hide and Seek: The Story of a Wartime Agent / new foreword by Robert Messenger / 188-page paperback / 5.5" x 8.75" / ISBN 978-1-58988-084-9 / Publication Date: July 2013 "One of the great books of the Second World War"—Antony Beevor "Hide and Seek, first published in 1954 and unavailable for many years, is surely among the best wartime memoirs. It is narrated in a vivid close-up style…by a man who spent two years in caves and other hideouts in the White Mountains, venturing to the coast only to guide a supply submarine with flashing torch, or to smuggle endangered or exhausted colleagues to safety in Cairo…It is remarkable that he lived to tell the tale; that he does so with such modesty, grace and humour is extraordinary."—James Campbell,Times Literary Supplement In January 1942, Xan Fielding landed on German-occupied Crete with orders to disrupt the resupply of Rommel's Afrika Korps and establish an intelligence network in cooperation with the Cretan resistance movement. Working with