Fame di guerra. L'occupazione italiana della Grecia (1941–43) by Paolo Fonzi, Rome, Carocci, 2019, 215 pp., €24.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-88-430-9948-1

While the country's domestic supply of wheat was restricted to the German and Bulgarian zones of north-east Greece, Italy was responsible for the provision of food for most of the country (p. 32). [...]recently, Italian historiography lacked much serious analysis of this episode. [...]the author's persistence to gain full access has paid off, giving us many new insights into Italian military strategy as well as a deeper understanding of the psychology and lived experience of the participants. The failure of the occupation authorities to prevent the collapse of social order left a power vacuum to be filled by the resistance, notably in the Communist EAM-controlled areas.