Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Those Who Are Loved - Victoria Hislop

This is the first Victoria Hislop novel that I have read.  It is the story of Themis  who as an elderly woman recounts her life in Greece from the 1930s, through the German occupation and how as a communist fighter she is held in intolerable conditions by her own countrymen.  It was fascinating to read about a period of history that I was unaware of, and gives a different perspective to the WWII stories that abound at the moment. 4/5

1 comment:

John Bellen said...

Greece went through a civil war even befrore the World War was over; disaster upon disaster...