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Ill Met By Moonlight
by Moss,W.Stanley
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0907675468
- ISBN 13
- 9780907675464
- Seller
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STREETSVILLE, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Buchan & Enright, 1985 Ex-Library. Very Good+. Rebound Copy. Reprint.. 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's sharp eye brings to life the national characteristics of thw German solider, the British officer, and the Cretan andarte - characteristics which often showed themselves all too strongly during the day of "monotony, and sweat, and thirst, and sickening fear' in the mountains, hiding from a huge Nazi manhunt. The tale (based on Moss's own diaries) is told with humour and tolerance and, the fear and discomfort forgotten, is today remembered as one of romantic valour. The exploit earned even the Germans' grudging admiration, and showed them that their most exalted commanders were not safe from death or capture. 192p. illus. Withdrawn from the Royal Canadian Military Institute, Ex-Library with usual marks. Solidly rebound with original paper wraps laminated to boards..
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- Seller
- KALAMOS BOOKS (CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 041013
- Title
- Ill Met By Moonlight
- Author
- Moss,W.Stanley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- Reprint.
- ISBN 10
- 0907675468
- ISBN 13
- 9780907675464
- Publisher
- Buchan & Enright
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- 1940-1945. CRETE. KREIPE. IN WW II GREECE 1940-1945 (WW II)
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crete; Greece 1920-1939; Book of the Movie;
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- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
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