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Ill Met By Moonlight
W. Stanley Moss
#UE8012
Paperback, 212 pages; 2010 (1950)
$11.96
For Moss and Fermor, the plan was supposed to be straightforward: Invade Nazi-occupied Crete without German detection, link up with some friendly local partisans and other British special forces, kidnap the military governor of the island, and escape with him back to Egypt. But, in warfare, the best-laid plans often fall apart. Managing to kidnap the general proved dangerous enough, but then the band had to elude the vengeful German army until they could get off the island. Cut off from contact with their headquarters, the duo had to both salvage the mission and get out with their lives, with only their wits and friendly Cretans to assist them. Ill Met By Moonlight is W. Stanley Moss's diary of the daring, ramshackle mission to kidnap Germany's General Kreipe in 1944. Moss's style is so engaging and expressive, the exhilaration of the action and the suspense of the hiding-out are palpable. Moss and Fermor emerge as gallant and dashing heroes of this thrilling, true-life adventure.
(CHH)
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