Greece, the Decade of War: Occupation, Resistance and Civil War

In this book, acclaimed historian David Brewer investigates explores 1940s Greece — one of the most tumultuous decades in Greece's modern history.

Beginning in 1941, the occupation of Greece by Germany was intensely brutal: children starved on the streets of Athens; the Jewish population was decimated in the Holocaust; heroic acts of resistance were met with vicious reprisals. When Greece was finally freed from Nazi rule in 1944, the fractured and embittered nation became engulfed in civil ...