Greece, December 1944

I'm currently finalising a paper on Britain and Greece from 1945-1955, for a book to be published at the end of the year.

I found some footage of  the much-debated events of December 1944, the Battle of Athens or "Ta Dekemvriana", which helped to create the Greece we know today. There are many different interpretations of those events, according to the political allegiances of the commentators or historians.

On Theodorakis' "Ballad of the Dead Brother" and the period of the Civil War