Memories of a British Officer serving in special operations executive in Greece, 1941
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The author is better known as a historian of ancient Macedonia
and Epirus. Than as a wartime soldier, whose familiarity with pre-war
Greece and with the Greek language brought him into the Greek theatre
of operations in 1941. He enjoyed unusual freedom of movement
and a wide range of experience, because he was attached first to the
Special Operations Executive in Athens and then to its «paranaval»
branch in Crete. Immediately after the war he wrote down his memories
for members of his family to read. (It is these menories which are
published here on the initiative of the Director of the Institute for
Balkan Studies).
and Epirus. Than as a wartime soldier, whose familiarity with pre-war
Greece and with the Greek language brought him into the Greek theatre
of operations in 1941. He enjoyed unusual freedom of movement
and a wide range of experience, because he was attached first to the
Special Operations Executive in Athens and then to its «paranaval»
branch in Crete. Immediately after the war he wrote down his memories
for members of his family to read. (It is these menories which are
published here on the initiative of the Director of the Institute for
Balkan Studies).
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