Ill Met by Moonlight. by W.STANLEY MOSS. (Patrick Leigh Fermor interest) - 1950

George G.Harrap & Co. Ltd., London, 1950. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 192pp. Black cloth lettered and ruled in silver at the spine. With a frontispiece, twenty-one half-tone photographs and two maps. Edges spotted, and a little further spotting to the title page and to occasional leaf margins. A very good copy in somewhat worm and handled non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with an inch of loss from the base of the spine panel, and several smaller areas of loss from three or four other extremities, plus a little creasing, fraying and dust soiling. An account of SOE operations in Crete during WWII, focusing on the audacious capture General Heinrich Kreipe, a plan masterminded and carried out by the author and Paddy Fermor. The book was completed in 1945 but not published for a further five years due to censorship concerns..