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The Late, Great Major A.T. Casdagli: An Interview with Alexis Penny Casdagli

The Late, Great Major A.T. Casdagli: An Interview with Alexis Penny Casdagli

Update: 2025-03-27
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In this episode, Isabella interviews Alexis Penny Casdagli, the daughter of Major A.T. Casdagli, an Anglo-Greek spy famous for embroidering subversive needlework during his time in German POW camps in WWII. 

Images and sources are available at @sewwhatpodcast on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. The podcast has a website, sewwhatpodcast.com.

You can read Major A.T. Casdagli's wartime diary, Prouder Than Ever, through Cylix Press here: https://www.cylixpress.co.uk/. Also be sure to check out Alexis Penny's blog here: https://www.cylixpress.co.uk/alexis-pennys-blog/.

As a note, the Greek Civil War is mentioned in this episode as being in 1948. The Greek Civil War took place from 1946 to 1949.

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The Late, Great Major A.T. Casdagli: An Interview with Alexis Penny Casdagli

The Late, Great Major A.T. Casdagli: An Interview with Alexis Penny Casdagli

Isabella Rosner