W. Stanley Moss
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. He was a best-selling author in the 1950s, based both on his novels and books about his wartime service. He featured events of his SOE years in Ill Met by Moonlight: The Abduction of General Kreipe (1950), (also adapted as a British film released under the main title in 1957) and A War of Shadows. Moss travelled around the world and went to Antarctica to meet the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
Read more about W. Stanley Moss: Early Life and Education, Soldier, Marriage and Family, Writer and Traveler, See Also, References
Famous quotes containing the word moss:
“so for your arrogance
and your ruthlessness
I am swept back
where dead lichens drip
dead cinders upon moss of ash....”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)