Abducting a General
FERMOR, Patrick Leigh
The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete. [Foreword by Roderick Bailey].
NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: John Murray, [2014]
Stock code: 40402
Price: £34.00
8vo., First Edition, with plates and 2 full-page maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, purple endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
First publication of Fermor's own account of the kidnapping of General Kreipe on occupied Crete, the story made famous by his co-conspirator Billy Moss in the classic 'Ill Met by Moonlight'. Includes a map of the abduction route.