Improbable Heroine

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Improbable Heroine

Lela Karayanni and the British Secret Services in World War II Greece

Author: Stylianos Perrakis

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Language: English

Published by: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Published on: 21st June 2022

Format: LCP-protected ePub

ISBN: 9783110778540


This is the first biography in English of a World War II heroine of the Greek resistance, who joined the British secret intelligence services (SIS) shortly after the German occupation of Athens and was betrayed, arrested and executed one month before the Germans’ departure. She was a prosperous housewife with seven children, who had no experience in politics or military affairs, and yet she managed to build a formidable escape, espionage and sabotage organization that interacted with the highest levels of SIS agents in Occupied Greece.

Book Presentation with Prof. Stylianos Perrakis (Concordia University), Prof. Stathis Kalyvas (University of Oxford), and Prof. Gonda van Steen (King’s College London)

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