Greece, the Decade of War
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Greece, the Decade of War

Occupation, Resistance and Civil War

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Greece, the Decade of War

Occupation, Resistance and Civil War

About this book

In this book, acclaimed history 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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Information

Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781350165434
eBook ISBN
9780857727329
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
World War II
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Illustrations
  3. Abbreviations
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Notes on Pronunciation and Names
  6. Prologue
  7. 1 The Albanian Gateway to Greece
  8. 2 Mussolini’s War on Greece
  9. 3 The German Invasion
  10. 4 The Battle for Crete
  11. 5 The Occupation Begins
  12. 6 Hyperinflation and Starvation
  13. 7 The Emergence of the Communists
  14. 8 Early Resistance
  15. 9 SOE, the AndÔrtes and Gorgopótamos
  16. 10 Village and City
  17. 11 The Destruction of the Jews
  18. 12 The Fractured Resistance
  19. 13 The Question of the King
  20. 14 The Cairo Conference, August 1943
  21. 15 The Italian Armistice and the First Communist Offensive
  22. 16 The Resistance in Crete
  23. 17 Upheaval in the Greek Government
  24. 18 Liberation
  25. 19 Towards Sunday 3 December 1944
  26. 20 The Battle for Athens
  27. 21 Dhamaskinós, Churchill and the Varkíza Agreement
  28. 22 The Government, the Communists and the Elections
  29. 23 The Truman Doctrine
  30. 24 1947 – Civil War and American Involvement
  31. 25 Terror from Left and Right
  32. 26 The Plight of the Greek Children
  33. 27 The Marshall Plan
  34. 28 The Ending of the Civil War
  35. Epilogue
  36. Chronology
  37. Notes
  38. Select Bibliography
  39. Index
  40. Plates