A History of the Greek Resistance in the Second World War: The Peoples Armies

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This book tells the story of the Greek resistance to Axis occupation during the Second World War and in particular the life of armed guerrillas. Rather than provide a conventional military history it will illuminate for the first time the lives, experiences and thoughts of the resistance fighters during their fight against the Occupation. -- .

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'This is an excellent analysis of the social conditions that gave birth and contributed to the development of the Greek guerrilla during the German occupation. Through a detailed and in-depth analysis of the elements that prevailed in the countryside, Tsoutsoumpis presents an impressive study of the armed resistance and the following civil war between the communist guerrillas and the anticommunist forces in Greece throughout the period of the Second World War.'
Nikos Marantzidis, Associate Professor of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki (Greece) and Visiting Professor of History at Charles University in Prague

' A History of the Greek Resistance is a rich and welcome book that brings new and invaluable insights to the historiography of the resistance movement in occupied Greece.'
Christopher Kinley, H-War

Author Bio

Spyros Tsoutsoumpis is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Wolverhampton