Ill Met by Moonlight
by W. Stanley Moss
The Folio Society. Folio Society Hardback Edition first edition 2001
214 pages, illustrated with b/w photo
Book: Introduction by M.R.D. Foot, prologue and epilogue by Iain Moncreiffe and an afterword by Patrick Leigh Fermor. A very fine copy, as new. Complete with a fine, unmarked slipcase
Dustwrapper: None as issued
REF. 0001199
A taut, first‑person account of the 1944 abduction of German General Heinrich Kreipe on Crete, told with a mixture of tension, dry humour, and admiration for the Cretan resistance. W. Stanley Moss presents the operation as both daring and improvised, shaped by rugged terrain, local bravery, and the peculiar camaraderie of clandestine war. The narrative moves briskly from planning to execution to the long, hazardous escape across the mountains