Moss W. Stanley
Moss W. Stanley
Willliam Stanley Moss, MC and Bar, was born in 1921 and educated at Charterhouse and abroad. Like Patrick Leigh-Fermor, he packed his teens with travel and adventure, returning in 1939 from a log cabin in Latvia by way of a yacht in order to join the Coldstream Guards. During a second clandestine trip to Crete the was betrayed by Communist sympathisers and had to fight his way out, and he served for the remainder of the war with guerrillas in Macedonia and Siam He wrote a highly praised novel, "The hour of Elight"and a account of the rest of his wartime adventures, "A war of Sadows".
Ill Met by Moonlight
Moss W. Stanley
Ευσταθιάδης Group (1999)
On 26 April 1944, Generalmajor Karl Kreipe, commanding the German forces occupying Crete, left H Q at Heraklion for his perisonal quarters. He never arrived. Instead, he was driven past 24 of his own guard posts, acknowledging the sentries'salutes while a hidden British officer pressed a gun into his side. 20 days later Kreipe and his chief abductors - Major Patrick Leigh-Fermor and the author - reached British-held Cairo. One of the finest true adventure stories of the last war, this justly famous book describes the secret landings, the plan, the stalking and victim. Moss...