A superior second
world war book based around the Greek resistance on the idyllic Ionian island of Lefkas. It is a story about
love, friendship, war, and treachery and brilliantly portrays how the Nazi
regime attempted to subjugate all those who opposed it's so called Reich
doctrine. I enjoyed the authors style of storytelling by introducing us to an
aged Eleni Thesskoudis and through her eyes revealing the courage and sacrifice
of the Greek resistance as first the Italians and then the Germans attempted to
crush all opposition to its vision of a new world order..."Perhaps war was
the real face of humanity, and peace was little more than a pretence of what
human nature could be."...."They were lying in wait to slaughter
their enemy, or be killed in turn. Against that reality what did their feelings
matter? Feelings had no place in this setting, this moment." This is the
second Simon Scarrow book I have recently read and it certainly does not
disappoint.
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