"The refusal to accept any domination of the Continent by one power has been the biggest British contribution to European peace and prosperity"

Like the poet, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a dashing man of action and letters and a hero to the Greeks for his wartime exploits in Crete

The book is beautifully done, but it is long and feels uneven

Remembering Reuben Fine, Magnus Carlsen's greatest role model