ILL MET BY MOONLIGHT by W Stanley Moss

London: Buchan & Enright. Very Good; Echoes of War Series. 1985. Paperback. 0907675468 . 191 pages .

Cimino Publishing Group, 1990-11. Paperback. Good.

London: Buchan & Enright, 1985 Ex-Library. Very Good+. Rebound Copy. Reprint.. On 26 April 1944, Generalmajor Karl Kreipe, commanding the German forces occupying Crete, left H Q at Heraklion for his perisonal quarters. He never arrived. Instead, he was driven past 24 of his own guard posts, acknowledging the sentries'salutes while a hidden British officer pressed a gun into his side. 20 days later Kreipe and his chief abductors - Major Patrick Leigh-Fermor and the author - reached British-held Cairo. One of the finest true adventure stories of the last war, this justly famous book describes the secret landings, the plan, the stalking and victim. Moss's sharp eye brings to life the national characteristics of thw German solider, the British officer, and the Cretan andarte - characteristics which often showed themselves all too strongly during the day of "monotony, and sweat, and thirst, and sickening fear' in the mountains, hiding from a huge Nazi manhunt. The tale (based on… Read More

LONDON: BUCHAN & ENRIGHT. Paperback. First published in 1950. First printing of this edition.The true story of the kidnapping of Generalmajor Karl Kreipe, who commanded the German forces occupying Crete in 1944. Describing the planning and carrying out of the operation. Based on Moss's diaries of the operation. Illustrated with black and white photographs(plates). Slight creasing on corner point of front cover. Slight wear on cover edges. Lightly tanned pages. Clean pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Location: CCB1/O . Very Good. Paperback. First Thus. 1985.

Buchan & Enright, 1985.. 1985. Soft cover. 0907675468 paperback, 192pp, illustrated, edges browning, text clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good condition. ISBN: 0907675468 .