Ill Met by Moonlight
The story how of two British commandos kidnapped a Nazi general. And quite a few of my holiday photos.
A Note:
I thought I’d take a break from politics today and share with you what historians do on holiday. I hope you enjoy the following!
The Spring of 1944 witnessed one of the Second World War’s legendary escapades. Cooperating with local partisans, two young officers in the British Special Operations Executive—Patrick Leigh Fermor (PLF, age 29) and Stanley Moss (SM, age 23)—kidnapped the second-in-command of the German garrison on Crete, General Heinrich Kreipe, spirited him across Mount Ida (Psiloritis) to the south coast, and bundled him onto a Royal Navy motor launch that took him to Cairo--and thence to a POW camp in Canada.
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