W. Stanley Moss
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Ivan William Stanley Moss MC, 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. He ser
Moss in Crete (1944)
Georgios Tyrakis, Moss, Leigh Fermor, Emmanouil Paterakis, Antonios Papaleonidas.
W. Stanley Moss's drawing of Kreipe Abduction Point
William Stanley Moss's Cosh used in the Abduction of General Heinrich Kreipe, 1944 – Held by Imperial War Museums
Patrick Leigh Fermor
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Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor was an English writer, scholar, soldier and polyglot. He played a prominent role in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War, and was widely seen as Britain's
W. Stanley Moss
…him. Next was Countess Zofia (Sophie) Tarnowska, forced to leave Poland in 1939 by the German invasion, followed by Arnold Breene of SOE HQ. Finally Patrick Leigh Fermor, an SOE officer who had spent the previous nine months in Crete, joined the household. The villa's new inhabitants called it Tara, after the legendary…
Leigh Fermor in 1966
Leigh Fermor, photographed by Dimitri Papadimos
Central part of Leigh Fermor's villa at Kalamitsi, Kardamyli