- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Time Life Education; Reprint edition (Mar 1990)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0809472708
- ISBN-13: 978-0809472703
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14.5 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,497,162 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A great adventure story from World War 11, the kidnapping of a German General from occupied Crete by two British officers and Cretan partisans, which was made into a classic film.
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One of the finest true adventure stories of the last world war, this justly famous book describes the secret landings, the plan, stalking and kidnapping, and escape of the motley crew of kidnappers and their victim.
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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book, written by one of the protagonists, concerns the utterly audacious plot by the British to kidnap the German General commanding German forces occupying Crete.
Here is the inside story of one of the greatest adventure stories of the Second World War. Secret landings, contacting the Cretan "andarte", creating a team and researching the movements of their target...It's all here.
Days of "monotony and sweat and thirst and sickening fear...." It's all here. Told with great pace and skill this tells the story of
an exploit that even the Germans admitted to
admiring.
Read it and be reminded of the great buccaneers
of history. But read it because it is not only a great tale it is also told with an edge of humour.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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The well known film of the same name is watchable, infact a good WW2 film. With just a touch of James Bond. But this book is much much better. Well written, a super adventure story. which just happens to be true. I enjoyed every page.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I've read `Ill met by moonlight' many times before - indeed, I possess a first edition - but this Folio edition was purchased as a present for me and very good it is, too.
There is a forward by MRD Foot, plus an afterword by Paddy Leigh Fermor, neither of which appeared in the previous editions, but the prologue and epilogue by Iain Moncreiffe, which were always present, are a delight. The extract from Fermor's letter to him, beautifully written from wartime Crete - "My island home, where the minotaurs roam" is the last word in self-deprecation.
And the story? Well, everybody who's got the slightest drop of red blood in his veins, knows the story - two wartime adventurers, Bill Stanley-Moss and Paddy Leigh Fermor who, as part of SOE's Force 133 were infiltrated into the German occupied island of Crete with but one objective - to kidnap General Kreipe, the commander of the Sevastopol Division and take him to the allies in Cairo. How they achieved this with a handful of Cretan andartes (resistance fighters) is thrilling stuff indeed, which resulted in Fermor being awarded an immediate DSO and Moss, an MC.
Not read it? Read it. Read it before? Read it again - you'll be reminded of the days when Britain was quite rightly referred to as `Great'.
There is a forward by MRD Foot, plus an afterword by Paddy Leigh Fermor, neither of which appeared in the previous editions, but the prologue and epilogue by Iain Moncreiffe, which were always present, are a delight. The extract from Fermor's letter to him, beautifully written from wartime Crete - "My island home, where the minotaurs roam" is the last word in self-deprecation.
And the story? Well, everybody who's got the slightest drop of red blood in his veins, knows the story - two wartime adventurers, Bill Stanley-Moss and Paddy Leigh Fermor who, as part of SOE's Force 133 were infiltrated into the German occupied island of Crete with but one objective - to kidnap General Kreipe, the commander of the Sevastopol Division and take him to the allies in Cairo. How they achieved this with a handful of Cretan andartes (resistance fighters) is thrilling stuff indeed, which resulted in Fermor being awarded an immediate DSO and Moss, an MC.
Not read it? Read it. Read it before? Read it again - you'll be reminded of the days when Britain was quite rightly referred to as `Great'.
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dunnie
Not much to say, very interesting book,couple of events in the film which I thought would not be true but they did happen. Would reccommend
Published 4 days ago by snowblown
iill met by moonlight
If you are an admirer ofPatrick Leigh- Fermor this is informative and exciting reading and makes sense of the film of the same name.
Published 2 months ago by susie
Ill met by moonlight
A fab book for the hubbies who love good old fashioned writing!!! It has bought me many nights of peace and quiet hehe
Published 7 months ago by Mrs. M. D. Walker
Some books just hook you straight away.
Only just started this, but as a "grab a few pages here and then" reader I'm hooked. I know the story... well seen the film.... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Mr. Geoffrey C. Brown
Shortage of tempests
A short book that should have been shorter. If war is long periods of boredom punctuating by brief moments of intense excitement, this book is convincing, at least on the first... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Edward Rogers
Great if you like WW2 or are going to Crete
The story of the invasion of Crete and the subsequent resistance action carried out by stranded troops and locals is pretty amazing. Read more
Published on 12 Jan 2010 by SLR Books
Ill met by moonlight
Excellent book. I have also seen the DVD. I have lived on Crete a number of years and have read a lot of war books on the Cretan War. Read more
Published on 31 Aug 2009 by Jax
MOONSTRUCK!
Courage, mes enfants! We've travelled this road before. But if there are any raw recruits in the ranks, let me reassure them from the outset that once the title's been tackled (a... Read more
Published on 12 Oct 2006 by Bill Keeth
An incredible story
A fascinating account of one of the most peculiar events of the last World War. Two British officers along with their amazing Cretan allies kidnapped the head of the German... Read more
Published on 1 Aug 2000 by Simon C McCrum
first war book i ever read without a shot been fired
personally I did not like the format of the book how it got made in to a film I'll never know
some chapters start off after the climatic event has happend which lessons the... Read more
Published on 28 Jun 2000 by masspecguy
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