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Ill met by moonlight

by W. Stanley Moss · 1950

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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.

British Personal narrativesCampaignsUnderground movementsWorld War, 1939-1945Personal narrativesHistorySuffrageWomenTimeWorld war, 1939-1945, campaigns, greeceWorld war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, britishCrete (greece), history