Ill Met By Moonlight by W Stanley Moss - 1950

UK: Harrap, 1950. 1st Edition 1950. Owned by a family member Henry Edward Moss. First edition of this account of the Cretan resistance during World War II. Octavo, original cloth, with fifteen plates in half-tone and two maps. W. Stanley Moss recounted his and Patrick Leigh Fermor's activities during the Second World War as agents in Crete of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), notably their extraordinary kidnapping of Heinrich Kreipe, Commander of the 22nd Air Landing Infantry Division that was occupying Crete, and his removal to Cairo (and British war forces) in 1944.[4] The manuscript was written in early 1945 but was censored by the Head of SOE, Major-General Sir Colin Gubbins (CD), by instruction to Colin Mackenzie (BB100), Head of Force 136. It was made into the 1957 film starring Dirk Bogarde. In the same format and design as the 1st Edition. The book is very good and quite bright. Contents good. Light foxing to some pages. The wrapper is good++ with rubbing/nicks to edges. Small closed tears and creasing to edges. Small loss to spine tips. More images can be taken upon request.Ref15215. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.