Product Description
by Christos Petrakis (Illustrator), Barrie Michael Machin (Author)
Stelianos Bervanakis survived Nazi imprisonment and against all odds for over two years. For over two years he was starved and beaten and sometimes left for dead. This is his heroic story as told to Barrie Machin in 1968. There were many war heroes in the Cretan resistance to the Nazi occupation of Crete. We owe our very existence and our democracy to these heroes. Stelios' story is a paradigm of the indomitable Greek spirit.
Author Biography
Barrie Machin is the author of a number of books on a wide range of subjects, including Antarctica: A Travel Survival Guide, comic sketches from 1982 in Beyond the Cringe: Sex Drugs Fishing DIY Terrorism The Assassination of American Presidents And Other Fun Things, The Moral Premises of Nuclear War and a children's book David is An Animal. He has produced other books in the social anthropology of Western Crete series including Passing Shadows: A Movie, Death in Crete, Songs of Fate and Other Essays, Stelianos Bervanakis A War Story and many videos about Western Crete including: Warriors and Maidens, Warriors and Maidens a Discussion, Passing Shadows, Burnt Harvest, Eagle Nests of Crete, and Sitari.He has made over one hundred ethnographic videos in Greece, Sri Lanka, India, Brazil and Australia including the prize winning Iramudun and Burnt Harvest. He was described by Fadwa El Guindi in 2007 as the earliest anthropologist to make extensive use of video in the book Visual Anthropology: Essential Method and Theory. He received the American Blue Ribbon for the best film in cultural studies 1984, the prize for a film of outstanding scientific and artistic excellence, Second International Visual Anthropology Film Festival, Parnu Estonia October 1988, the Anthropos-Omega Lifetime Achievement Award in association with the Festival dei Popoli alongside Jean Rouch and Claudine de France. He lives in Tasmania.
