A War of Shadows

Afterword by Alan Ogden / 258-page paperback / 5.5" x 8.5" / ISBN 978-1-58988-097-9 / Publication Date: December 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. 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 Crete, Macedonia, and the Siamese jungle—rife with intrigue: ambushes, double-dealing, and back-door missions. "Billy Moss was one of those daring adventurers, the like of which we no longer see. This book…tells of his further exploits in Crete, Macedonia, and Siam—the story of a man of initiative and great courage."—Hugo Vickers, author and historian "The romance and adventure of resistance operations, with splendid companions, the spate