Greece in 1940

See what was going on in Greece in 1940.

This part of the how they tell it series on exploring the past.

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The Greco-Italian War

On 28 October 1940 Mussolini starts the Greco-Italian War. Why did he do it, will they succeed? What were the Allies doing?

Books that tell the stories

There are a lot of great books on Amazon that tell the stories of the occupation of Greece, the Resistance, the Civil War, Mussolini's blunder, the Humanitarian Aid, the Greek-Italian Front, the spies, the Greek Immigrants, surviving the Holocaust and extraordinary woman.

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Greece, the Decade of War: Occupation, Resistance and Civil War (paid link)

Kindle, Hardcover, Paperback by David Brewer (paid link)

The Defence and Fall of Greece, 1940–41 (paid link)

by John Carr (paid link)

Blitzkrieg in the Balkans (World War II from Original Sources) (paid link)

Paperback by Bob Carruthers (paid link)

The hollow Legions: Mussolini's blunder in Greece, 1940-41 (paid link)

Hardcover by Mario Cervi (paid link)

Bearing Gifts to Greeks: Humanitarian Aid to Greece in the 1940s (St Antony's Series) (paid link)

Hardcover by Richard Clogg (paid link)

Diary of a Disaster: British Aid to Greece, 1940-1941 (paid link)

Hardcover, Paperback by Robin Higham (paid link)

Perilous Commitments: Britain's Involvement in Greece and Crete 1940-41 (paid link)

Hardcover by Matthew Willingham (paid link)

Written on the Knee: A Diary from the Greek-Italian Front of WWII (paid link)

Kindle, Paperback by Helen Electrie Lindsay (paid link)

Greece 1940-41 Eyewitnessed (paid link)

Paperback by C.N. Hadjipateras (paid link), M.S. Fafalios (paid link)

Wind of freedom;: The history of the invasion of Greece by the axis powers, 1940-1941 (paid link)

Hardcover by COMPTON MACKENZIE (paid link)

Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-44 (paid link)

Hardcover, Paperback by Mark Mazower (paid link)

Krisanthi's War: In Hitler's Greece (paid link)

Kindle, Paperback by Ida Egli (paid link)

Classical Spies: American Archaeologists with the OSS in World War II Greece (paid link)

Kindle, Hardcover, Paperback by Susan Heuck Allen (paid link)

The Improbable Heroine: Lela Karayanni and the British Secret Services in World War II Greece (paid link)

Kindle, Hardcover by Stylianos Perrakis (paid link)

Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War: Australia's Greek Immigrants after World War II and the Greek Civil War (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare) (paid link)

Kindle, Hardcover, Paperback by Joy Damousi (paid link)

Mussolini’s Army against Greece: October 1940–April 1941 (Routledge Studies in Second World War History) (paid link)

Kindle, Hardcover, Paperback by Richard Carrier (paid link)

A history of the Greek resistance in the Second World War: The people’s armies (Cultural History of Modern War) (paid link)

Kindle by Spiros Tsoutsoumpis (paid link)

Seven Miracles: Surviving the Holocaust in Greece (paid link)

Kindle, Paperback by Isaac Daniel (paid link)

Arrested Song: the haunting story of an extraordinary woman in Greece during WW2 (paid link)

Kindle, Audiobook, Paperback by Irena Karafilly (paid link)

Hearts of Stone: A gripping historical thriller of World War II and the Greek resistance (paid link)

Kindle, Hardcover, Paperback, Mass Market Paperback by Simon Scarrow (paid link)

On Spartan Wings: The Royal Hellenic Air Force in World War Two (paid link)

Kindle, Hardcover, Paperback by John Carr (paid link)

Air War for Yugoslavia Greece and Crete 1940-41 (paid link)

Kindle, Hardcover by Brian Cull (paid link), Christopher Shores (paid link)

Swastika over the Acropolis (History of Warfare, 92) (paid link)

Hardcover by Craig Stockings (paid link)

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