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Kidnapping a Nazi General: Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Perfect Heist
- jimhefferon 11y agoGreat article but in particular, love the map.
- cafard 11y agoDuring one of John Mosby's raids, he captured a brigadier general and a couple hundred horses. Abraham Lincoln is quoted as saying the he regretted the horses more: he could make a brigadier general any day. It is not clear what benefit this brought to the allied cause, unless raising some morale in the UK. Was that an equivalent for the damage done by the Germans trying to find the general?
- steve19 11y agolook at the cost of terrorism today. we spend a fortune to combat relatively unlikely events. no doubt axis general began wasting time, men and money trying to protect themselves from kidnapping.