This fascinating and richly illustrated narrative of wartime Greece explores the impact of the Nazi Occupation on the lives and values of ordinary people. It is the first comprehensive account of the occupation experience, offering a vivid human picture of resistance fighters and black markets, teenage German recruits and Gestapo officers, Jews and starving villagers. "Compelling... [Mazower] manages to get under the skin of occupation... [This book] evokes, with vivid detail, life under an occupation that shattered old certainties and replaced them with painful choices, cynical compromises, and hopes overshadowed by everyday death." —Mark Almond, New York Times "A vivid picture of the mind and actions of the German occupier... Mazower's arguments are always fair." —Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review "An excellent book on the horrors that beset wartime Greece... [Mazower] has done extensive archival research and emerged with a gripping, readable, and human narrative, placing each moment of a tragic period in proper context." —Fritz Stern, Foreign Affairs "[A] sensitive, revealing, and richly textured narrative of a painful, complex experience." —Richard Overy, Observer.

Mark Mazower is a professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London, and author of Dark Continent.

Pages: 464, Publication Year: 0208, Dimensions: 12.7x12.7cm