By Moonlight is a book written by Peter Churchill, DSO, Croix de Guerre, published in 1958. It is a fictional book based on the true story of the RAF supplying arms and supplies to the Maquis des Glières, who were the first French resistance group to fight a pitched battle against the Germans in World War II. Churchill worked with the Maquis des Glières during his wartime activities in the French section of the Special Operations Executive.