Greece, the Decade of War

Occupation, Resistance and Civil War

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

In this book, acclaimed historian David Brewer investigates explores 1940s Greece -- one of the most tumultuous decades in Greece's modern history. Beginning in 1941, the occupation of Greece by Germany was intensely brutal: children starved on the streets of Athens; the Jewish population was decimated in the Holocaust; heroic acts of resistance were met with vicious reprisals. When Greece was finally freed from Nazi rule in 1944, the fractured and embittered nation became engulfed in civil war, as conflict flared between the British and American-sponsored government and communist-led rebels. In Greece, The Decade of War, Brewer expertly analyses these events and in doing so provides a compelling military and political history.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-11-12
Mått:152 x 232 x 22 mm
Vikt:520 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:372
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350165434

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David Brewer is the author of Greece, the Hidden Centuries and The Flame of Freedom: The Greek War of Independence, 1821-1833. After studying Classics at Oxford University, he divided his working life between teaching, journalism and business before devoting himself to the study of the history of Greece.

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List of IllustrationsPrologue1. The Albanian Gateway to Greece2. Mussolini's War on Greece3. The German Invasion4. The Battle for Crete5. The Occupation Begins6. Hyperinflation and Starvation7. The Emergence of the Communists8. Early Resistance9. SOE, the Andartes and Gorgopotamos10. Village and City11. The Destruction of the Jews12. The Fractured Resistance13. The Question of the King14. The Cairo Conference, August 194315. The Italian Armistice and the First Communist Offensive16. The Resistance in Crete17. Upheaval in the Greek Government18. Liberation19. Towards Sunday December 3rd 194420. The Battle for Athens21. Dhamaskinos, Churchill and the Varkiza Agreement22. The Government, the Communists and the Elections23. The Truman Doctrine24. 1947 – Civil War and American Involvement25. Terror from Left and Right26. The Plight of the Greek Children27. The Marshall Plan28. The Ending of the Civil WarEpilogueChronologyNotesSelect Bibliography