The First Victory: Greece in the Second World War

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This book provides a sweeping account of the role that Greece played in that conflict. During the first thirteen months of the war Hitlers unstoppable war machine had occupied seven European countries and had enslaved a population of 120 million by fighting for less than three months. The surprising seven-month-long Greek resistance to the invading armies of Italy and Germany that followed in 1940-1941 gave the Greeks the first Allied victories on land and became a beacon of hope and an inspiration to freedom-loving countries everywhere. The Greek victories provided badly needed relief to the British who at that time were fighting the Axis alone. The archives of the warring armies provide the backdrop of ferocious battles of the Greek forces against numerically superior and far better equipped Italian and German troops. Personal accounts by men and women who lived through extraordinary events provide the details pinpointing moments that horrify and inspire. From the introductio