The British soldiers who served in Greece during the Second World War took on multiple roles: military, political, economic, and humanitarian. The book focuses on the experiences of these soldiers by utilizing their personal testimonies (personal correspondence, diaries, memories), in combination with official reports, British publications, newspapers of the time, and other sources. The words, but sometimes also the silences of the soldiers, show that their approach to the war, Greece, and Britain itself was anything but one-dimensional.

Includes maps and photographic material.