Secret War: The Fight for Greece | Free Documentary History

In the autumn of 1942 Monty Woodhouse; scholar, diplomat, warrior was parachuted into Greece to raise hell. With a motley band of partisans, he would pull off one of the most spectacular missions of the entire war. Does anyone know Monty’s proper first name?

“Infighting” among the Greeks? That’s like pub crawling among the Brits...

My grandfather was one of the first troops to enter Athens, he was in the SBS and apparently they rushed into the city on a fire engine!

Thank u long live greece

So happy I stumbled upon this channel. Absolutely love the narrator

If the communists would not have got their arms from the British and Italians, they would have got them from the Soviet Union, next door in Yugoslavia.

Greece should give Woodhouse an award but Greece never did. Shame Greece shame

That Greek communist leader now that’s a Beard! My wife is forbidden to watch this video as I feel emasculated

Biassed

Similar operation was done by British in Yugoslavia too. Book :Eastern approaches

Monty, the English aristocrat, went on to help topple the democratically elected government of Iran with the CIA in 'operation boot' to steal their oil and prop up the local aristocracy there. What a guy.

The Allies did not think for too long about arming the Spviet Union and allowing it to occupy The entire Eastern Europe; while OSE was worried about ELAS.

I completely and totally disagree with blurring out pictures of death in War. In my mind blurring out death from scenes of War is absolutely not appropriate

What a wonderful story and brilliant presentation. Woodhouse and Mayers, names that would be ignored otherwise. Thank you. It gives one hope that leadership is not finished in extraordinary young men. May it rise again.

Bless Monty Woodhouse. He was an absolute beast of a man that worked hard for everyone there sacrificing his own life. I always wondered what I would’ve been like if I was around back then. I like to think that I would’ve been a good man like Mr. Woodhouse. Rest Easy, Monty.

Such a sad story. My Greek relatives suffered so much in the war and the civil war. This video was heartbreaking.

Great doc, thanks. My grandfather fought in North Africa and then up through Italy before being drafted to Greece to fight in the civil war getting home in 1946.

Great doco, but it lacks a great deal of nuance, for a start Velouchiotis was a very complex character not just a mad dog as he’s portrayed here. Secondly, it’s very important this note that from August 1936 through to the lead up to German occupation, Greece was under fascist inspired dictatorship. Hopefully that should add some insight as to why SOE leadership was quite so short sighted.

British interests were largely indifferent to the regime and benefitted greatly from Metaxas’ collusion this is too often forgotten. This is why there was such a rabid attachment to communist ideals in ELAS at that time given the persecution people like Velouchiotis had suffered to that point

Another case of British foreign policy creating a self fulfilling prophecy

Hello from GREECE.

I think Monty was an ....Officer and a True Great British Gentleman - Real Hero - Men like him put the Great in Great Britain ....

Extreme People off Substance.

Very inspiring, very brave.

The Civil War in Greece after WWII was brutal and still resonates today because the wounds remain raw

NZer left behind in Crete - later went on to SOE in Greece - Sgt Dudley Perkins aka Vasilli, the Lion of Crete!!

My Grandfather was there.

Thank you Papou Ilias you gave your all for our beloved Greece 🇬🇷

Great men...
A breed seldom encountered...
The generation who stepped up in the face of adversity...
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Both the Greek armies are splitters in my book .

Greek tragedy💔

The Axis occupation of Greece, specifically the Greek islands, figures in several English-language books and films based on real special forces raids such as I'll Met by Moonlight, The Cretan Runner, fictional ones like The Guns of Navarone, Escape to Athena, The Magnus, They Who Dare, and Captain Corelli's Mandolin (a fictional occupation narrative). Notable Greek movies referring to the period, the war and the occupation, are Ochi, What did you do in the war, Thanasi? and Ipolochagos Natassa.

So where did the people with British supplied arms keep getting their ammo ??

That was a powerful ending.
Those who never make mistakes are those who do nothing! They don't win Wars.

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You mean Patton and Monty where beating the Germans