Eleni

by NicholasGage (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1984

  $3.53

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $15.75

• Used

  Hardcover
  1983

  $3.53

• New

  Paperback
  1997

  $15.31

  This is the biography of a woman who was arrested, tortured and shot in 1948 because she had helped her children to escape the Communist guerrillas during the Greek Civil War. Nicholas Gage, then aged eight eventually reached America where he became one of the New York Times' best investigative reporters.He returned to Greece as its chief correspondent in 1977, where he reconstructed his mother's life and death. He is the author of two novels and of Hellas: A Portrait of Greece . He co-produced the film Eleni directed by Peter Yates.