Secret War: Greece-Middle East, 1940-1945: The Events Surrounding the Story of Service 5-16-5
A True Story of Heroism in Nazi-Occupied Greece
[Some of] the most dramatic use of secret intelligence in the Western Theater resulted from covert operations against the Nazis in the cities of occupied Europe, which were implemented, to a great extent, by young men and women. For the most part, their stories remained shrouded in secrecy. Readers were carried away reading the brave feats of the partisans in the mountains, deserts, and jungles, while the strategic role of the spies and saboteurs in the cities remained almost anonymous.
Rigas Rigopoulos offers a rare insight into the world of espionage and sabotage and the daily terror that characterized covert operations in Athens and Piraeus. Rigopoulos was one of many young Greeks appalled by the Axis occupation, but one of the few who was prepared to undertake the hazardous role of spy and saboteur.
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Book details
- Author
- Rigas Rigopoulos
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Hardcover, Paperback
- Subjects
- History › Wars & Conflicts › World War II
- Topics
- World War II · Nazi-occupied Greece · espionage · sabotage · covert operations · resistance fighters · Athens and Piraeus · secret intelligence
- ISBN-13
- 9781563118869 (Hardcover)9781681623542 (Paperback)
About the author
RIGAS RIGOPOULOS was a Greek social scientist, resistance fighter, and the author of Secret War: Greece–Middle East, 1940–1945.
Rigopoulos received the Award of the Academy of Athens for his wartime memoir. He graduated from the Athens University of Economics and Business Sciences and pursued postgraduate studies at the Sorbonne in Paris and the London School of Economics.
When not writing, Rigopoulos led the Hellenic Patriotic Society—an independent resistance organization known as Service 5-16-5—conducting covert operations in Athens and Piraeus during the Axis occupation of Greece. He later served as Prefect of Ioannina during the Greek civil war and worked in journalism, radio, financial advising, and advertising. These experiences shaped his two sociology books and his wartime memoir.