Rick Stroud is a writer and television director who has directed such actors as Pierce Brosnan, John Hurt, Ian Holme, David Suchet, Celia Imrie and Joanna Lumley. Earlier in his career, he was the associate producer of Brideshead Revisited. He has won an Emmy and been nominated for a BAFTA. He is the author of THE BOOK OF THE MOON and THE PHANTOM ARMY OF ALAMEIN: How the Camouflage Unit and Operation Bertram Hoodwinked Rommel, and with Victor Gregg has written RIFLEMAN and KING'S CROSS KID. He is currently working on a book about the kidnapping by the SOE of General Kreipe from his headquarters on Nazi occupied Crete. He lives in London.

Books by Rick Stroud

Kidnap in Crete: The True Story of the Abduction of a Nazi General

by Rick Stroud - History, Nonfiction

This is the story of how a small SOE unit led by Patrick Leigh Fermor kidnapped a German general on the Nazi-occupied island of Crete in 1944. For 32 days, they were chased across the mountains as they headed for the coast and a rendezvous with a Royal Navy launch waiting to spirit the general to Cairo. From the adrenalin rush of the kidnapping, to the help provided by the Cretan partisans and people, Rick Stroud explains the overall context of Crete's role in World War II and reveals the devastating consequences of this mission for them all.