Ill Met by Moonlight
Non-fiction book by W. Stanley Moss / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the film, see Ill Met by Moonlight (film).
Ill Met by Moonlight: The Abduction of General Kreipe is a non-fiction partly-autobiographical book[1][2] written by W. Stanley Moss,[3] a British soldier, writer and traveller. It describes an operation in Crete during the Second World War to capture German general Heinrich Kreipe. Moss kept a diary during the war years and based his book on it. The 2014 edition includes an introduction by one of Moss's children and an afterword by Patrick Leigh Fermor.
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Author | W. Stanley Moss |
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Language | English |
Genre | War |
Publisher | George G. Harrap and Co. |
Publication date | 1950 |
Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
Pages | 190 |
ISBN | 978-1-7802-2623-1 |
Followed by | A War of Shadows |
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The story was made into a 1957 film with the same title starring Dirk Bogarde by the British writer-director-producer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.