Phoebus Athanassiou

This fully illustrated study examines the German, Italian and Bulgarian occupation forces in Greece during 1941–44, as well as those of the two Greek Resistance organisations. Italy’s failed invasion of Greece in 1940–41 led to the German invasion of Yugoslavia in the spring of 1941, which extended into Greece. After the fall of Athens and Crete in April and May,...

This absorbing study describes and illustrates the US, British, Japanese, French, Italian and Czechoslovak troops deployed to North Russia and Siberia at the height of the Russian Civil War. Between March 1918 and late 1920, a multinational force was deployed in the former Russian Empire’s Arctic Circle and in Eastern Siberia, becoming drawn into the Russian Civil War. American, British,...

In October 1940, an Italian army some 200,000 strong invaded Greece across its largely undefended border with Albania. Although supported by Great Britain—at first by sea and in the air, and later by landing British and ANZAC troops from North Africa—Greece bore the main brunt of the six-month war. Outclassed in materiel and outnumbered, LtGen Papagos's Greek army was so...