The Wild and Twisted Branch: The Story of Stavros Metropoulos and How He Survived the Greek Civil War

The amazing true story of one man’s survival during the German occupation of Greece in World War II and the ensuing Greek civil war. In 1941 everything is going right for Stavros Metropoulos, with a growing business and a growing family, until Greece is invaded and pulled into World War II. What starts as a means of fighting back against the hated German occupation leads him down a path he never could have envisioned. He soon finds himself running for his life from one near-death experience to another.Using Stavros’ written memoirs, first-person interviews, and over a decade of research, his son Angelo Metropoulos builds a detailed picture of life in a remote Greek village during the German occupation and the resulting chaos perpetrated by the communist resistance that led to the bitter and bloody Greek Civil War.