Artemis Cooper, Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure (New York: New York Review Books, 2012) ("Happiness, excitement, youth, good looks, eagerness to please and an open heart: Paddy had them all. The combination was irresistible, and people responded to it with warmth and delight. The Spengels' student son, Fritz, took him round Heidelberg the next day while Paddy pumped him for details about the drinking and dueling rituals that lent such dark glamour to German student life. Back at the inn, sitting with Fritz in the early stages of the New Year's Eve festivities, he was brought up against darkness of a different sort.
'So? Ein Englander?' A fair-haired young Nazi came up to the table where he and Fritz were sitting together, England, he said through gritted teeth, had stolen Germany's colonies, stopped her from having a proper army or a fleet, and was run by Jews. Fritz was embarrassed and apologetic. 'You see what it's like,' he said. "Although he was walking through Germany at one of the most significant moments in its modern history, Paddy's head was full of the romance of Germany's past. 'If only I had headless of a medieval passion,more of a political sense,'he admitted in a notebook entry thirty years later, 'I would have drunk in, sought our so much more.' He had spent very little thinking about political ideas. At home, he had absorbed the middle-class conservatism of his mother, and his ancient school in its rural backwater had given him no reason to question it. At the bar of the Cavendish, socialism was considered radical and exciting, but held little aesthetic appeal for his imagination. "Yet despite his political myopia, what he saw of Nazism in those few weeks of 1933 was enough to fill him with abhorrence."
Id. at 44-45.).
Patrick Leigh Fermor, Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates, introduction by Jan Morris (New York: New York Review Books Classics, 1986, 2005).
Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos, edited and introduction by Colin Thubron & Artemis Cooper (New York: New York Review Books, 2013).
Patrick Leigh Fermor, Mani: Travels in Southern Peloponnese, introduction by Michael Gorra (New York: New York Review Books Classics, 1958, 2006).
Patrick Leigh Fermor, Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece, introduction by Patricia Storace (New York: New York Review Books Classics, 1966, 2006).
Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube, introduction by Jan Morris (New York: New York Review Books Classics, 1977, 2005).
Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time to Keep Silence, introduction by Karen Armstrong, drawings by John Craxton (New York: New York Review Books Classics, 1957, 2007).
Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Traveller's Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands, introduction by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro (New York: New York Review Books Classics, 1950, 2013).
Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Violins of Saint-Jacques: A Tale or the Antilles, introduction by James Campbell, decorations by Robin Ironside (New York: New York Review Books Classics, 1953, 2017).
