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How a Greek sentry's carelessness in crossing the border to retrieve his pet triggered a military invasion and the intervention of the League of Nations.
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How civil engineering managed to cross the Gulf of Corinth by erecting a 2.8-kilometer cable-stayed viaduct over an active tectonic fault without anchoring its piers to bedrock.
History
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How British intelligence dressed a vagrant as a naval officer to make the Nazis believe they would invade Greece instead of Sicily.
History
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How a canine fleeing across the Greece-Bulgaria border triggered an armed invasion and international intervention.
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The daring 1943 British stratagem that used a false identity attached to a body at sea to conceal the invasion of Sicily.
History
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How British intelligence invented a wartime officer using the body of a homeless man to mislead the Nazi army in Sicily.