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Autore |
Brewer David <1932-> |
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Titolo |
Greece, the Decade of War : Occupation, Resistance and Civil War / / David Brewer |
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London, England : , : I.B. Tauris, , 2019 |
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[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2019 |
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ISBN |
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0-7556-0366-4 |
0-85772-936-5 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (282 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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European history |
Electronic books. |
Greece History Occupation, 1941-1944 |
Greece History Civil War, 1944-1949 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-312) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The Albanian Gateway to Greece -- Mussolini's War on Greece -- The German Invasion -- The Battle for Crete -- The Occupation Begins -- Hyperinflation and Starvation -- The Emergence of the Communists -- Early Resistance -- SOE, the Andártes and Gorgopótamos -- Village and city -- The Destruction of the Jews -- The Fractured Resistance -- The Question of the King -- The Cairo Conference, August 1943 -- The Italian Armistice and the First Communist Offensive -- The Resistance in Crete -- Upheaval in the Greek Government -- Liberation -- Towards Sunday 3 December 1944 -- The Battle for Athens -- Dhamaskinós, Churchill and the Varkiza Agreement -- The Government, the Communists and the Elections -- The Truman Doctrine -- 1947 -- Civil War and American Involvement -- Terror from Left and Right -- The Plight of the Greek Children -- The Marshall Plan -- The Ending of the Civil War. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"During the 1940s Greece was torn apart twice, first by World War II and second by Civil War. 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 |
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acts of resistance -- performed in concert with the SOE -- 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."--Jacket flap. |
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