{"product_id":"the-white-mountains","title":"The White Mountains – Historical Military Fiction Ebook","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCrete, 1947. The Germans are gone. Now Greeks are fighting Greeks.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLieutenant Andreas Markakis is sent into the White Mountains with a small government patrol and orders that sound simple on paper: locate the Communist guerrillas operating among the peaks, uncover their supply network, and destroy or capture their leaders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNothing in the mountains is simple.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe enemy knows the trails, the caves and the villages. Informers operate on both sides. Old friends from the resistance now face one another across rifle sights, while villagers trapped between government forces and guerrillas must decide whom to trust—and what they are willing to do simply to survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor Sergeant Manolis Vardakis, the mission is painfully personal. The guerrilla commander they are hunting, Captain Leonidas Vrettos, once saved his life fighting the Germans. Leonidas's sister is the woman Vardakis once intended to marry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs ambushes, executions and betrayals drag the patrol deeper into the mountains, Markakis discovers that the conflict is no longer simply government against Communist. Rivalries are tearing the guerrillas apart, a ruthless figure known as \u003cstrong\u003ethe Teacher\u003c\/strong\u003e is manipulating both sides, and someone inside the government forces is feeding information to the enemy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoon Markakis must decide how far he will obey his orders—and how much he is willing to risk to prevent the civil war from consuming everyone caught between its opposing sides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet against the rugged landscape of post-war Crete, \u003cstrong\u003eThe White Mountains\u003c\/strong\u003e is a historical war novel about loyalty, betrayal, friendship and ordinary people trapped inside an extraordinary conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYesterday they fought the Germans together.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eToday they are expected to kill each other.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Swan Military Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58618643022168,"sku":null,"price":1.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/8693\/5896\/files\/TheWhiteMountainsImage.png?v=1790950781","url":"https:\/\/swanmilitarybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/the-white-mountains","provider":"Swan Military Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}