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What is so remarkable about this adventure in war-time Crete to abduct a German general, carried out by a couple of daring Englishmen (W.Stanley Moss and Patrick Leigh Fermor) is that Stanley Moss wrote it as it was happening. It is pretty much his diary (with a few post-script notes added here and there). It seems they had a grand old time all in all - certainly there was danger but that seemed to just add spice to it for them. The funniest part was when they got to the beach and, to signal the motor launch, they were instructed to flash (in Morse Code) SB - the only problem being that neither of them knew anything in Morse Code other than SOS so they were busy flashing SSSSS until another British agent turned up who fortunately knew Morse Code. The whole thing seemed like a grand lark. Truly remarkable!
