Robert Crisp was a man unmanageable except by his own wit and lights. I was fascinated to read how the WWII tank hero who participated in some of the great underdog and under-weaponed battles of WWII, (Greece and the Western Desert in Libya.), beat cancer with the help of his Greek doctors and his own imbibing a chemotherapeutic preparation instead of applying topically. Broke the rules once again. He is most comfortable in desperate discomfort and ambiguity, where his perception of events shortly to come in nature allows him to cope, perhaps unlike events in the human world where reality is a matter of perception, conniving, and hostile plans of people very unlike him. I see in him a need to get back to basics of existence, far from plans to disrupt his options. If, like reading a novel, you suspend disbelief and accept that he 'had to' leave domesticity and live rough on a Greek peninsula in a donated ramshackle home, his only income a soldier's disability pension, it is vitally interesting. His relationships with the donkey and his adopted animals show him in a sympathetic light. People really loved him, wherever he went, when things were simple and they didn't need him to execute behaviors and plans. I knew a war hero in Vietnam who was most interested in what happened in the next five minutes rather in longer range speculations. Is there explanation here? Would Bob Crisp have been a hero if he were pedestrian and methodical? The newspaper columns he was paid for as he later circumnavigated Crete on foot have been collected with earlier and later writings and carefully compiled into this book, published posthumously by his family. Here's a man who lived at the most basic. To read this book is to touch a life, one of the most extraordinary lives of our times. Read it and find encouragement. After having speculated so much about him, I must add that I awaited this publication and bought it on the day of publishing, because I have such high regard for Robert Crisp, having read both Brazen Chariots and The Gods were Neutral. Something about him illuminates our times and lives. Thanks to his children for their hard work. I hope it becomes a further legacy for the family.
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