George Psychoundakis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Greek resistance fighter and writer
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Place of Birth: Asi Gonia, Decentralized Administration of Crete, Greece
About George Psychoundakis
- George Psychoundakis (Greek: Ge?????? ??????t????, 3 November 1920 – 29 January 2006) was a Greek Resistance fighter on Crete during the Second World War.
- He was a shepherd, a war hero and an author.
- He served as dispatch runner between Petro Petrakas and Papadakis behind the German lines for the Cretan resistance and later, from 1941 to 1945, for the Special Operations Executive (SOE).
- During the postwar years he was at first mistakenly imprisoned as a deserter.
- While in prison he wrote his wartime memoirs, which achieved considerable success.
- Later he translated key classical Greek texts into the Cretan dialect.
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