Dr Phoebus Athanassiou is a Greek Army (Reserve) officer who has seen service in Greece and Cyprus. A military history enthusiast and an avid modeller, he lives in Germany, where he works in the financial sector. He is the author of Osprey's Armies of the Greek-Italian War 1940-41 and Armies in Southern Russia 1918-19.

Adam Hook specializes in historical reconstructions, and has illustrated Osprey titles on subjects as diverse as the Aztecs, Roman battle tactics and the modern Chinese Army.

Introduction
Greece's traditions of irregular warfare
Resistance in Greece
Chronology
ELAS: The pan-Hellenic resistance army: Command structure - Organization and recruitment - Weapons and personal equipment - ELAS naval forces
EDES: the junior resistance army: Organization and command structure - Recruitment base - Weapons and personal equipment
Guerrilla training, tactics and operations
German occupation forces in Greece: Organization and occupation record - Anti-partisan tactics and operations
Italian occupation forces
Bulgarian occupation forces
Collaborationist forces
The reckoning
Further reading
Plate commentaries
Index