Lot #5: 4 WWII Era Military & Napoleonic Biography Folio Society Books in Slipcases.

4 WWII Era Military & Napoleonic Biography Folio Society Books in Slipcases. Cover conditions as shown. Bindings tight and page blocks intact. Text and illustrations clean throughout. Ill Met by Moonlight by W. Stanley Moss. This thrilling World War II memoir recounts the daring 1944 covert operation by British Special Operations Executive agents to kidnap German Major General Heinrich Kreipe on occupied Crete. Operating behind enemy lines alongside local Cretan resistance fighters, Moss details their tense evasion of thousands of Axis troops to evacuate the General across mountainous terrain by sea. Memoirs of a British Agent by R. H. Bruce Lockhart. This captivating autobiographical account details Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart's espionage and diplomatic missions in Russia during World War I and the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. It offers a firsthand perspective on key figures like Lenin and Trotsky, ending in Lockhart's imprisonment in the Kremlin following his alleged role in an Allied plot to overthrow the Soviet regime. The Double-Cross System 1939–1945 by J. C. Masterman. Written by the chairman of the Twenty Committee, this authoritative account reveals how British intelligence successfully turned, controlled, and ran German double agents throughout World War II. It outlines the ingenious counter-espionage tactics that fed Berlin fake intelligence, culminating in the massive strategic deception that secured the success of the D-Day landings. The Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne 1812–1813 (Retreat from Moscow) by Adrien Bourgogne. This harrowing firsthand account details a sergeant in Napoleon's Imperial Guard surviving the disastrous French army retreat from Moscow during the Russian Campaign. Bourgogne records the extreme horrors of freezing winter conditions, starvation, Cossack attacks, and the catastrophic collapse of military discipline as the Grand Army marched west. Pickup category timeslot {A}