# The Cretan Runner

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- Book: [The Cretan Runner](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-psychoundakis/the-cretan-runner) ([The Cretan Runner.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-psychoundakis/the-cretan-runner.md))
- Authors: [George Psychoundakis](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-psychoundakis)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-15-9017-904-8
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2015-11-03
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

George Psychoundakis was a twenty-one-year-old shepherd from the village of Asi Gonia when the battle of Crete began: “It was in May 1941 that, all of a sudden, high in the sky, we heard the drone...