An Italian Account of their Invasion of the Balkans. This book by Massimiliano Afiero has a particular resonance with me personally as my mother and her two sisters grew up with m ...
Outnumbered and outgunned, the Royal Hellenic Air Force faced the Italian invasion of 1940 with barely forty bombers and a handful of fighters. Flying obsolete aircraft against modern Axis forces, ...
The attempt by the Italians (!) to bribe it – The return of its men to Greece: how its men were captured by the Italians – ...
When Germany overran Greece in 1941, one last Allied stronghold in the region remained: the island of Crete. With the Italian ...
(See Cover) Since World War II began 14 months ago the Balkan Peninsula has run a temperature. Periodic scares have sent it to fever pitch, then dropped it as, one way or another, neighboring powers ...
The sound of distant church bells pealed for half an hour one day last week over the brown hills of Greece—by state decree. In Athens, traffic cops stopped cars to tell drivers what had happened.