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This would eventually force Hitler to send in German reinforcements to support his beleaguered Italian allies, delaying his invasion of the Soviet Union.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eComplete with contemporary photographs and full-colour uniform plates, this fascinating study explores the history, organization, and appearance of the armies of this oft-forgotten conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eArmies of the Greek-Italian War 1940–41\u003c\/em\u003e by Phoebus Athanassiou provides valuable insights into this remarkable chapter of World War II history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46848457670892,"sku":"9781472819178","price":24.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/10329303482712.jpg?v=1758977825"},{"product_id":"partisan-warfare-in-greece-194144-by-phoebus-athanassiou-9781472867520","title":"Partisan Warfare in Greece 1941–44","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eItaly’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, the country was divided under German, Italian, and Bulgarian occupation. The royal government and army survivors withdrew to British-ruled Egypt, but resistance organisations of differing political character soon sprang up at home, forming guerrilla forces that exploited Greece’s rugged terrain and limited communications.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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. 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This conflict cost both the resistance and the Axis forces some 15,000 men killed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePartisan Warfare in Greece 1941–44\u003c\/i\u003e provides insight into a tumultuous period that was a prelude to the Greek Civil War, shaping the future of Greece in the years that followed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46849664680172,"sku":"9781472867520","price":69.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/10812723482712.jpg?v=1759059068"},{"product_id":"armies-in-north-russia-and-siberia-191820-by-phoebus-athanassiou-9781472873279","title":"Armies in North Russia and Siberia 1918–20","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBetween 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. 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