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Ivan William Stanley Moss MC (15 June 1921 – 9 August 1965), commonly known as W. Stanley Moss or Billy Moss, was a British army officer in World War II, and later a successful writer, broadcaster, journalist, and traveller.
W. Stanley Moss. Writer: Night Ambush. At the outbreak of WWII W. Stanley Moss had recently left Charterhouse school and was living in a Latvian log cabin. He had earlier survived the 1923 Japanese earthquake as a baby and had travelled to the four corners of the globe.
Major Ivan William Stanley "Billy" Moss, MC was a British army officer in World War II, and later a successful writer, broadcaster, journalist and traveller. He served with the Coldstream Guards and the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and is best known for the Kidnap of General Kreipe.
Ivan William Stanley Moss MC (15 June 1921 – 9 August 1965), commonly known as W. Stanley Moss or Billy Moss, was a British army officer in World War II, and later a successful writer, broadcaster, journalist, and traveller.
Oct 10, 2014 · He recalls how he and his colleague W Stanley "Billy" Moss dressed as German corporals, flagged down the general's car on an isolated road.
Apr 15, 2014 · “One of the finest memoirs of behind-the-lines work during the Second World War. Honest, powerful, and authentic.”—Dr. Roderick Bailey, SOE author and historian A War of Shadows is W. Stanley Moss’s sequel to his classic Ill Met by Moonlight .
Oct 17, 2014 · Ill Met by Moonlight was written by W Stanley Moss, better known as Billy, the younger of two British officers behind the kidnapping. In 1957 it was made into a film starring Dirk Bogarde as...
Ivan William ‘Billy’ Stanley Moss was a British army officer in the Second World War, and later a successful writer, broadcaster, journalist and traveller. He served with the Coldstream Guards and the Special Operations Executive (SOE).
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A former British operative who, along with Patrick Leigh Fermor, once kidnapped a Nazi general (as told in Ill Met), Moss offers this rousing account of his World War II adventures as an agent in...
Ill Met by Moonlight: The Abduction of General Kreipe is a non-fiction partly-autobiographical book written by W. Stanley Moss, a British soldier, writer and traveller. It describes an operation in Crete during the Second World War to capture German general Heinrich Kreipe .
