W. Stanley Moss, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

W. Stanley Moss

British Army officer

Date of Birth: 15-Jun-1921

Place of Birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 09-Aug-1965

Profession: spy

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Ivan William Stanley "Billy" Moss MC (15 June 1921 – 9 August 1965), 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.
His SOE years are featured in Ill Met by Moonlight: The Abduction of General Kreipe, (also adapted as a British film released under the main title) and A War of Shadows.
Moss travelled around the world and went to Antarctica to meet the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition. A short biography, Billy Moss: Soldier, Writer, Traveller - A Brief Life by Alan Ogden, was published in 2014 as an Afterword to A War of Shadows.