"This amazing story is marvelously well told, in an exuberant,
racing style that makes it impossible to lay the book aside once
the first page is read." --"San Francisco Chronicle"
"Ill Met By Moonlight" is the gripping account of the audacious
World War II abduction of a German general from the island of
Crete. British special forces officers W. Stanley Moss and Patrick
Leigh Fermor, together with a small band of Cretan partisans,
kidnapped the general, then evaded numerous German checkpoints and
patrols for nearly three weeks as they maneuvered across the
mountainous island to a rendezvous with the boat that finally
whisked them away to Allied headquarters in Cairo.
"It was a mad adventure, and it came off. Moss recorded the
whole escapade in a diary, which survives as a thrilling account of
one of the most reckless and dramatic actions of the war."
--Patrick Leigh Fermor
"A twin masterpiece of action and narrative." --"Spectator"
" An] exciting account of a feat which demanded an extreme of
daring and determination." --"London Times"
The 2011 Paul Dry Books edition includes an Afterword by Patrick
Leigh Fermor.
W. Stanley Moss was a World War II hero and later a best-selling
author. He traveled extensively after the war, notably to
Antarctica with a British Antarctic Expedition. Eventually he
settled in Kingston, Jamaica.
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