The Broken Road

I’ve just finished The Broken Road,the long-delayed third volume of Patrick Leigh Fermor’s memoir of the walk across Europe that the 18-year-0ld Fermor took in 1933, just after Hitler took power in Germany. I have mentioned the earlier volumes, A Time of Gifts andBetween the Woods and the Water elsewhere, and added a little appreciation of my ownon hearing of Fermor’s death, at the age of 96. Though the books are a window into the personality of the bumptious young protagonist (as remembered b...