Chapter 8, page 1
IT BEGINS!!
We start with a documented interaction between Napoleon Zervas and C.M. Woodhouse, one of the SOE team that participated in the Harling Operation. He is, of course, a real historical person who has written many books on Greece and WWII in Greece. He could speak Greek, knew Greece well, and is reported to be somewhat of a philhellene. This conversation is taken faithfully from the matching entry in Napoleon Zervas’ diary.
At the time, the British were notoriously unaware of the emerging partisan groups in Greece and their respective political affiliations and alliances.
Even the manner in which the Greek Resistance spilled from the cities to the mountains determined how the partisan groups formed and who controlled what in terms of territory, but at the time the British had little clue. The colonel Woodhouse is referring to is Eddy Myers, whom we’ll soon meet as well.
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