Publisher's Synopsis
"Fascinating. . . . [Mazower] succeeds in getting under the skin of the occupation. . . . [This book] conjures up, in vivid detail, life under an occupation that had shattered old certainties and replaced them with painful choices, cynical compromises, and hopes undercut by the daily death toll." -Mark Almond, New York Times
"A vivid picture of the German occupier's mind and actions. . . . Mazower's arguments are always fair." -Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"A superb book on the horrors afflicting wartime Greece. . . . [Mazower] has done vast archival research and emerged with a gripping, readable and human account, setting every moment of a tragic period in appropriate context." -Fritz Stern, Foreign Affairs
"[A] sensitive, illuminating and richly textured account of painful, complex experience." -Richard Overy, Observer
Mark Mazower is professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London, and author of Dark Continent.