Ill Met By Moonlight by W. Stanley Moss - ISBN: 9781780226231
Paperback
Daring kidnap behind enemy lines: a WWII special forces escapade.

Ill Met By Moonlight

The Classic Story of Wartime Daring

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  • Paperback

    192 pages

  • Release Date

    8 April 2014

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Summary

This is a classic account by one of the officers who took part in one of the great escapades of WWII.

In 1943, W. Stanley Moss and Patrick Leigh-Fermor, both serving with Special Forces in the Middle East, decided on a plan to kidnap General Kreipe, Commander of the Sevastopol Division in Crete, and bring him back to Allied occupied Cairo.

This is the story of their adventures, working with a fearsome band of partisans, as they daringly capture the General in an ambush and str…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781780226231
ISBN-10:1780226233
Author:W. Stanley Moss
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Imprint:Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:192
Release Date:8 April 2014
Weight:214g
Dimensions:196mm x 132mm x 19mm
Series:W&N Military
About The Author

W. Stanley Moss

W. (Billy) Stanley Moss led an adventurous life as a young man before the War, fought with the 8th Army in the desert and then joined the Special Forces serving in Crete with the partisans.

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