Wes Davis served for two years as an assistant to the director of excavations at Kavousi in Eastern Crete, not far from the plateau where Patrick Leigh Fermor parachuted onto the island during WWII. He holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from Princeton University and is a former assistant professor of English at Yale University. Editor of the Harvard University Press Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry, he has written for publications that include the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and The Nation.

Books by Wes Davis

The Ariadne Objective: The Underground War to Rescue Crete from the Nazis

by Wes Davis - History, Nonfiction

THE ARIADNE OBJECTIVE tells the remarkable story of the secret war on Crete from the perspective of amateur soldiers --- scholars, archaeologists, writers --- who found themselves serving as spies in Crete because, as one of them put it, they had made “the obsolete choice of Greek at school.” In this thrilling untold story of World War II, Wes Davis offers a brilliant portrait of a group of legends in the making, against the backdrop of one of the war’s most exotic locales.