The improbable heroine : Lela Karayanni and the British secret services in world war ii Greece / Stylianos Perrakis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perrakis, Stylianos, 1938- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women spies.

Karagiannē, Lela, 1898-1944.

Karagiannē, Lela.

Greece.

Great Britain. MI6--Employees--Biography.

Great Britain.

Great Britain. MI6.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (388 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2022]

Summary:

This is the first biography in English of a World War II heroine of the Greek resistance, who joined the British secret intelligence services (SIS) shortly after the German occupation of Athens and was betrayed, arrested and executed one month before the Germans’ departure. She was a prosperous housewife with seven children, who had no experience in politics or military affairs, and yet she managed to build a formidable escape, espionage and sabotage organization that interacted with the highest levels of SIS agents in Occupied Greece.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Contents

List of acronyms

1 Prologue

2 The troubled country: Greece in the early twentieth century

3 The making of a heroine: Lela Karayanni, 1898–1941

4 The British secret services in Greece at the beginning of the war

5 Greece at war: October 1940–May 1941

6 Lela Karayanni, resister and secret agent I: Mana Karayanni

7 The Kokkinia escapes

8 Disaster in the Aegean

9 The smuggler the famine, and the rise of EAM

Illustrations

10 Lela Karayanni, resister and secret agent II: Spies and saboteurs, 1941–1942

11 Thurgoland and Harling

12 From Prometheus to Apollo and the Lela connection

13 Armed resistance, collaboration, and the politics of Dr. Frankenstein

14 Lela Karayanni, Righteous Among Nations

15 Apollo wounded

16 The Grand Scheme and Lela’s arrest

17 The heroic deaths

18 Liberation and aftermath

19 Epilogue: Lela Karayanni, the armed resistance and the politicization of memory

Chronology of the main WW II events in Greece

List of photography sources

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-077840-8