Greece - Life World Library Author:Alexander Eliot Modern Greece was shaped on the anvil of war. Whereas in western Europe the guns of World War II were silenced in 1945, the Greek people were condemned to struggle with the Communist invaders for four grinding years thereafter -- often village against village and sometimes brother against bother -- before they could vindicate the right of 20th ... more »Century Greece to stand with the free world, which inherited freedom from Athens 2,500 years ago.« less