Publisher's Synopsis
This is the Second Edition of the award winning In The Blood of the Greeks The Illustrated Companion that features images and interviews with real life women of the Greek Resistance during World War II. It mixes war time photography behind the fiction from the novel "In The Blood of the Greeks" with real history of the Greek Resistance and the Jewish fight for survival.
In Nazi-occupied Greece, Eva and Zoe -- one a German officer's daughter, the other a young Greek woman filled with fury -- should be enemies. But when fate brings them together, they discover a love that transcends the barriers between them. In The Blood of the Greeks The Illustrated Companion is about the events writtenin the award-winning novel "In The Blood Of The Greeks." Real life heroes of the Resistance, life in war-torn Greece and the Jewish fight for survival are portrayed through illusrations, images and real accounts.
Part coloring book, part history book featuring Brazilian artist Lucia Nobrega's illustrations of Eva Muller and Zoe Lambros and other characters from the novel.
Features war photography from the Australian War Memorial, The New Zealand War Memorial (The Alexander Turnball Library, Wellington, NZ) and The Jewish Museum of Greece.
It's a unique book looking at the history behind the novel and how women of the resistance helped in the battle against Nazi Germany.
