Title: Ill met by moonlight
First published: 1950
Description: 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.
Subjects: British Personal narratives, Campaigns, Underground movements, World War, 1939-1945, Personal narratives, History, Suffrage, Women, Time, World war, 1939-1945, campaigns, greece, World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, british, Crete (greece), history
Places: Crete, Crete (Greece), Greece
People: Karl Kreipe, W. Stanley Moss (1921-)
Time periods: Occupation, 1941-1945