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Description: IN 1944, IN GERMAN-OCCUPIED CRETE, PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR, BILLY MOSS AND A SQUAD OF GREEK FREEDOM-FIGHTERS, CAPTURED GENERAL KREIPE, WHO COMMANDED THE GERMAN FORCES ON THE ISLAND. HE WAS HIDDEN FOR WEEKS AND SMUGGLED AWAY TO ALEXANDRIA. IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE FEATS OF WORLD WAR 2. IN 1950, BILL STANLEY MOSS PUBLISHED THE STORY AS "ILL-MET BY MOONLIGHT." FIRST EDITIONS ARE HARD TO COME BY. IN 2001, THE FOLIO SOCIETY PRODUCED THIS ELEGANT REPRINT, WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR AND IAIN MONTCREIFFE, WITH PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE MAIN PARTICIPANTS IN THIS EXTRAORDINARY COUP. 214 PAGES. 14 PLATES. 2 MAPS. GLOSSARY OF TERMS. POSTAGE IN UK £2.50. SECURE, RECYCLED PACKAGING. 100% POSITIVE FEEDBACK. DOWNSIZING MY LIBRARY. MANY BOOKS TO COME. PLEASE LOOK AT MY OTHER LISTINGS, INCLUDING MANY BOOKS ON MOUNTAINEERING, THE HIMALAYAS AND TIBET.

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Location: London, London

End Time: 2025-01-20T13:27:06.000Z

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Item Specifics

Returns Accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted

Binding: Cloth

Personalised: No

Place of Publication: LONDON

Non-Fiction Subject: KIDNAP OF GERMAN GENERAL KREIPE ON CRETE, 1944

Signed: No

Publisher: Folio Society

Modified Item: No

Year Printed: 2001

Original/Facsimile: Original

Language: English

Special Attributes: Illustrated, Luxury Edition

Original/Reproduction: Original

Region: GREECE

Author: W. STANLEY MOSS

Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom

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