Partisan Warfare in Greece 194144
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Partisan Warfare in Greece 194144
By (Author) Phoebus Athanassiou
Illustrated by Adam Hook
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Osprey Publishing
2nd September 2025
22nd May 2025
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Irregular or guerrilla forces and warfare
Second World War
940.53495
Physical Properties
Paperback
48
Width 182mm, Height 246mm, Spine 6mm
160g
Description
This fully illustrated study examines the German, Italian and Bulgarian occupation forces in Greece during 194144 as well as those of the two Greek Resistance organizations.
Italys failed invasion of Greece in 194041 led to the German invasion of Yugoslavia in spring 1941 being extended into Greece, and, after the fall of Athens and Crete in April and May, the division of the country under German, Italian and Bulgarian occupation. The royal government and Army survivors withdrew to British-ruled Egypt, but at home resistance organizations of differing political character soon sprang up, forming guerrilla forces that exploited Greeces rugged terrain and limited communications.
The strongest resistance force was the Communist-dominated National Liberation Front (EAM) with its partisan Greek Popular Army (ELAS). Agents of the Western Allied powers had only brief success in mediating cooperation between the mutually hostile EAM/ELAS, and the National Republican Greek League (EDES) with its EOEA. Foreshadowing the Greek Civil War that would follow liberation, ELAS and EOEA clashed, in the background to their separate operations against the Axis occupiers.
Drawing upon a wide range of sources, Phoebus Athanassiou charts the development of the fighting in occupied Greece: a struggle as ferocious as that fought in neighbouring Yugoslavia, which cost both the resistance and the Axis forces some 15,000 men killed.
Author Bio
Dr Phoebus Athanassiou is a Greek Army (Reserve) officer who has seen service in Greece and Cyprus. A military history enthusiast and an avid modeller, he lives in Germany, where he works in the financial sector. He is the author of Osprey's Armies of the Greek-Italian War 194041 and Armies in Southern Russia 191819.
Adam Hook specializes in historical reconstructions, and has illustrated Osprey titles on subjects as diverse as the Aztecs, Roman battle tactics and the modern Chinese Army.
