War in the Balkans

Jeffrey Plowman's photographic history traces the course of the entire Balkan campaign from the first moves of the Italians through Albania and the invasion of Jugoslavia and Bulgaria by German forces through to the battle for Greece and the final airborne assault on Crete.

He gives equal weight to every stage of the campaign – he doesn't just combine the first stages and treat them as an introduction to the battle for Crete – and he covers all the forces involved – the Germans, the Greeks, the Commonwealth troops. By shifting the focus to the mainland, he views the campaign as a whole, and he offers a balanced portrayal of a conflict that is often overlooked in histories of this phase of the Second World War.

Most of the graphic photographs he has selected have never been published before, and many come from private sources. They are a unique visual record of the military vehicles, tanks, aircraft, artillery and other equipment used by the opposing armies seventy years ago. They also show the conditions the soldiers faced, and the landscape of the Balkens over which they fought, and they give a powerful impression of the reality of battle for the men themselves.

---

Some books that may interest you

After Jutland By: James Goldrick	Kut: The Death of an Army By: Ronald Millar	A History Of The British Cavalry 1816-1919 Volume 8 By: Marquess of Anglesey
Battle for Crete By: John Hall Spencer	The Lusitania Story: The Atrocity that Shook the World By: Steven Jones, Mitch Peeke, Kevin Walsh-Johnson	The Armed Rovers By: Roy Conyers Nesbit
Fighter Aces of the Great War By: Stephen Wynn, Tanya Wynn	Hitler's Secret War By: Charles Whiting	Fighter Aces of the RAF in the Battle of Britain By: Philip Kaplan