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W. Stanley
A wartime officer turned bestselling writer, he drew on real danger and far-flung travel to create books full of nerve, suspense, and sharp observation. His best-known work grew out of one of the most daring missions of the Second World War.
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Instruction for Using a Slide Rule
by W. Stanley
About the author
Born Ivan William Stanley Moss in 1921, he became widely known as W. Stanley Moss, or Billy Moss. He served with the Coldstream Guards and later with the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War, taking part in the famous abduction of General Heinrich Kreipe in Crete.
After the war, he built a successful second career as a writer, broadcaster, journalist, and traveller. His 1950 memoir Ill Met by Moonlight brought his wartime experiences to a wide audience and remained his most famous book, while his other writing drew on both adventure and the places he explored.
Moss died in 1965 at the age of 44, but his work has kept his reputation alive as a vivid storyteller with firsthand experience of extraordinary events.