Ill Met by Moonlight

by Moss, W. Stanley
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ISBN: 9781580800600
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"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. Paul Dry Books also publishes A War of Shadows, Moss's sequel to Ill Met By Moonlight--a rousing account of his World War II adventures as an agent in Crete, Macedonia, and the Siamese jungle.


  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Moss, W. Stanley
  • ISBN: 9781580800600
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.28 x 0.56
  • Number Of Pages: 192
  • Publication Year: 1998

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