20 FEBRUARY 1959, Page 27

The Flight of Ikaros. By Kevin Andrews. (Weidenfeld and - Nicolson,

21s.) This young man lived in Athens and in the hardest, remotest parts of the Peloponnese during the troubled times of the later 1940s. Few of the many who have deeply admired Greece and the Greeks have conveyed so sympathetically and unsentimentally, and in such coloured yet precise prose, their feeling' for the cruel, hospitable, cynical, affectionate. unfrighten- able country and people, Communist and mon- archist, brigand and priest.