GREAT WORLD WAR TWO (ii) (2) STORIES 1939 - 1945: A Perfect Morning; Lunghua Camp; The Journey; The Birth of an Idea; The Big Day; Abducting the General; The Landing at Kuralei; Shall I Live for a Ghost; Billy Pilgrim; Battalion in Defence; Anopopei

EVELYN WAUGH

NEVIL SHUTE

NORMAN MAILER

PAUL BRICKHILL

Bruce Marshall

James Jones

James. A Michener

J.G.Ballard

kurt-vonnegut

Richard Hillary

W. Stanley Moss

Anonymous (editor) (Irwin Shaw

Ewen Montague

Charles J. Rolo

Graham Brooks)

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Ill Met By Moonlight

Ill Met by Moonlight

TIME/LIFE

"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 ChronicleIll 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 TimesThe 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.

Ill Met by Moonlight: The Abduction of General Kreipe (Echoes of War)

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

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