Mick Hartley

Perhaps surprisingly, it's Christopher Hitchens who writes the finest tribute to the man:

The death of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor at the age of 96, commemorated in many obituaries as the end of a celebrated travel writer, in fact rings down the final curtain on an extraordinary group of British irregular warriors whose contribution to the defeat of Hitler, significant in military terms, still managed to recall an age when nobility and even chivalry were a part of warfare.

Worth reading in full – especially for the tale of the German general and the Horace ode. 

Elsewhere, Hitchens is in good form here:

Worse than being told that you've got to leave and the party's going on without you would be to be told the party's going on forever and you're not allowed to leave. And the host insists that you have a good time….