Ill Met By Moonlight
W. Stanley Moss
Ill Met By Moonlight describes the dazzling World War II kidnapping of a German general from the island of Crete. Two Englishmen, W. Stanley Moss and Patrick Leigh Fermor, pulled off the abduction, and then with their prisoner and Cretan partisans hiked for days through treacherous mountains to rendezvous—amidst German patrols—with a British Patrol Boat that whisked them and their prize to safety in Cairo.
W. Stanley Moss, a war hero, was a best-selling author in the 1950s. He traveled extensively, notably to Antarctica with a British Antarctic Expedition. Eventually he settled in Kingston, Jamaica, where he died in 1965 at the age of 44.
Farewell to SalonicaLeon Sciaky
Trade Paper,
299 pp.,
$14.95 |
A World of Sephardic Jews, Greek Orthodox, and Turkish Muslims in the early 1900s At the crossroads of East and West, Salonica (now Thessaloniki) was an oasis in a swirl of conflicting powers and interests, a vibrant world of varied peoples, where Leon Sciaky grew up at the turn of the twentieth century. This Paul Dry Books rediscovered classic includes many photos courtesy o . . . [read more] |
The Flight of IkarosKevin Andrews
Trade Paper,
264 pp.,
$14.95 |
"One of the great and lasting books about Greece." —Patrick Leigh Fermor In 1947, at the age of twenty-three, Kevin Andrews received a Fulbright fellowship to study medieval fortresses in the Peloponnese. Andrews spent the long summers of 1948 to 1951 traveling through the region and the winters writing in Athens. This opportunity to travel through little-frequented ar . . . [read more] |