This is a well written tale of a doomed Italian offensive in the Greco-Italian war. It has enough detail to satisfy most without the dryness such detail can often suggest.

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Beating Tsundoku

Excellent research and presentation of one of the most important, but least researched, parts of WWII – Very Highly Recommended

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Firetrench

"...a beautifully written account of the bravery and sacrifice of the Greek army as well as that of the Italians set against it."

WWII History

This is a fascinating book, especially for those of us not specialized in the Balkan part of World War 2. John Carr really has delivered a great story here, professionally researched, and written in a very grasping way.
Although the title of the book refers to a specific part of the Italo-Greek war in early 1941, the book covers a lot more ground than that single battle.

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WW2 Traces

This book works on so many levels it can be read as a great war story or it can be seen as an important spotlight on part of what is an often overlooked front in WW2.
We highly recommend it.

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Clash of Steel

I love a book where I know little about the event or what happens, I know I’m in line for a good book hopefully where I’m going to learn a lot. The book is very well written book from both sides of the battle, not just the one sided version, the book is very good indeed and it helps that it relies upon first hand testimonies. I like that the book is purely about this battle and the effect it would have in this case on the future tactics of the axis member countries. In many books your always reading about conjoining events that filter in to take you away from the main story but this book doesn’t. The conditions and suffering by those that endured the bombardment must have been so bloody and devastating. All quite portrayed and detailed in the books. The detail in this book is fascinating and really does make a great book to read for anyone interested in this particular part of the war. I would give this book a full recommendation and a great read indeed.

5 stars

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UK Historian

What can I say more, a book that has the balance of the narrative as its strength, stretched between the two forces, the Greek and the Italian, who fought for a hill of very little importance in the strategic perspective of war in general but which assumed great symbolic significance. That place for the Italians is "Zona Sacra" (Sacred Zone) and even the Greeks, after years of confrontation with the various Albanian governments, finally see the opportunity to celebrate and honour their dead. A campaign that was terrible and that led to nothing, both for one and for the other side but that makes one appreciate even more the resilience and courage that animated both armies that fought for Hill 731 . A book which I hope will be translated into Italian and which undoubtedly enters by right among the best written about the Greek campaign.

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On The Old Barbed Wire