I'm in two minds about this book. On the one hand there were bits where I just had to keep reading, on the other there were bits where I just couldn't bother picking the book up to continue. It's a book that makes you think about the darker side of humans and humanity, which is rarely pleasant. A book that teaches you about bits of WWII history you may know little of, unless you've had a particular interest in Greece and the Balkans, and the long (and short) shadows of the atrocities of men. It's also a book about, at times, very real people that I at least developed a very ambivalent relationship with.