Hell in the Aegean — Greece
The 1970 film (Escape to Athena) depicts Allied POWs and Greek partisans on a German-occupied Aegean island — combining resistance operations with the drama of occupation in the Greek islands.
The Dodecanese Campaign of September-November 1943 saw British forces attempt to seize Greek islands after Italy's armistice. The Battle of Leros (12-16 November 1943) ended in a catastrophic British defeat — 3,000 British and 5,000 Italian soldiers were captured. Churchill later called it 'the worst British reverse since Singapore'. The Aegean islands remained under German occupation until October 1944.