Considered by some to be the influence for Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, the Greek-speaking British spy Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz carried out a series of unique, solo espionage missions that undermined the Nazis during their World War II (WWII) occupation...
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, a famous 1994 novel by Louis de Bernières and a 2001 film adaptation starring Nicolas Cage and Penélope Cruz, brought to international attention the massacre of Italian soldiers on the Greek island of Kefalonia during WWII.
Thousands...
A radical map that emerged from British planning circles during the lead-up to the Tehran Conference in late 1943 shows that British PM Winston Churchill entertained the idea that Greece should take control of southern Italy (Magna Graecia) as...
Liberty Ships, first built during World War II, transformed the Greek shipping industry.
By Lia Mageira
“Your safety altogether depends upon the sea.”
Xenophon, 4th century BC, Greek historian and philosopher.
During World War II, between 1941 and 1945, a total of 2,711...
A minute of silence was observed in Hiroshima today, precisely at the time an atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city 80 years ago, during an annual ceremony attended by more than a hundred countries, as US-Russian tensions...
As Europe celebrated the long-awaited end of World War II on May 8, 1945, the Greek island of Symi witnessed the German surrender in the Dodecanese.
That day, in a solemn ceremony, General Otto Wagener, commander of the German forces...
One of the last surviving ANZAC veterans who fought in the Battle of Crete, Arthur Leggett, has passed away at the age of 106.
A widely respected figure in Perth, Western Australia, Leggett was a passionate advocate for veterans and...
