Author: Andre GerolymatosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The first full, nonpartisan history of the Greek Civil War, the brutal guerrilla conflict that launched the Cold War
Red Acropolis, Black Terror
Author: Andre GerolymatosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The first full, nonpartisan history of the Greek Civil War, the brutal guerrilla conflict that launched the Cold War
The Kapetanios
Author: Dominique EudesPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 085345275X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
The complicated and dramatic course of the Civil War in Greece had, for lack of parties interested in reconstructing the truth of its events, never been narrated prior to the appearance of this volume. It closed a gap in the history of our times, and did so with thoroughness and vivid journalistic immediacy. In addition to the known sources and unpublished documents, the author relied on testimony painstakingly collected from survivors of the tragedy who were scattered throughout the world. It remains the authoritative account of the kapetanios, the guerrilla chiefs who organized the partisans in the Greek mountains.
An International Civil War
Author: André GerolymatosPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300182309
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
An authoritative history of the Greek Civil War and its profound influence on American foreign policy and the post–Second World War period In his comprehensive history André Gerolymatos demonstrates how the Greek Civil War played a pivotal role in the shaping of policy and politics in post–Second World War Europe and America and was a key starting point of the Cold War. Based in part on recently declassified documents from Greece, the United States, and the British Intelligence Services, this masterful study sheds new light on the aftershocks that have rocked Greece in the seven decades following the end of the bitter hostilities.
Children of the Greek Civil War
Author: Loring M. DanforthPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226135985
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
At the height of the Greek Civil War in 1948, 38,000 children were evacuated from their homes in the mountains of northern Greece and relocated to orphanages and children's homes. This book analyses the evacuation, which remains a controversial issue within Greek society.
The Greek Civil War
Author: Spyridon PlakoudasPublisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN: 9781350152151
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Greek Civil War (1946-1949) was one of the few instances in the post-World War II era of a clear-cut and permanent victory by right-wing government forces over an insurgent communist movement. Spyridon Plakoudas here explores the factors which ultimately caused the downfall of the communist insurgency in Greece which had, at some points, seemed undefeatable. He questions whether the guerrilla movement fell victim to the feud between Stalin and Tito or whether the significant British and, above all, American aid in fact rescued the Greek monarchist regime from collapse. Plakoudas explores the strategies adopted by government forces in order to counter the communist insurgency, how external and internal actors influenced these policies and when, how and why these policies achieved success. Featuring previously unseen sources and documents, this book reveals the strategy and tactics of the monarchist regime.
Air Force Combat Units of World War II
Author: Maurer MaurerPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428915850
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
American Influence in Greece, 1917-1929
Author: Louis P. CassimatisPublisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873383578
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The diplomatic relations between Greece and the United States in the interwar period have received scant attention from historians, primarily because of the non-political and non-military role of the United States in that part of the world prior to the Second World War. The American presence in Greece after 1917, however, would be fundamental to the social and economic development of the Greek nation, while American influence would eventually permeate all levels of Greek society. Dr. Cassimatis offers the first, full-length account of this formative period in the history of Greek-American diplomacy. The issues separating the governments of the United States and Greece in the 1920s were simultaneously self-contained and international in scope. For Greece, they were self-contained because they involved solutions to domestic problems affecting the welfare--indeed, the survival--of the Greek nation. Internationally, they were interconnected because efforts to bring about their resolution contributed to an American entanglement in the Near-East policies of Great Britain, France and Italy. Thus, American loans, commercial aggrandizement, the inroads of American capital, philanthropy, and cultural relations were but components of a larger diplomatic setting in which the interests of the United States came into conflict with the interests of the Western European powers.
Rebel Governance in Civil War
Author: Ana ArjonaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316432386
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
This is the first book to examine and compare how rebels govern civilians during civil wars in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Drawing from a variety of disciplinary traditions, including political science, sociology, and anthropology, the book provides in-depth case studies of specific conflicts as well as comparative studies of multiple conflicts. Among other themes, the book examines why and how some rebels establish both structures and practices of rule, the role of ideology, cultural, and material factors affecting rebel governance strategies, the impact of governance on the rebel/civilian relationship, civilian responses to rebel rule, the comparison between modes of state and non-state governance to rebel attempts to establish political order, the political economy of rebel governance, and the decline and demise of rebel governance attempts.
The Vision of Anglo-America
Author: Henry Butterfield RyanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521892841
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This study demonstrates the importance of the decline of British power in the creation of the Cold War.
The Flight of Ikaros
Author: Kevin AndrewsPublisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
"On a chance commission to study medieval fortresses, Kevin Andrews found himself travelling, in the late forties, through Greece in the turmoil of a bloody civil war. His ... book is neither about fortresses nor about politics. Instead it reads like a novel and provides perhaps the first, certainly the most vivid, candid and memorable picture of modern Greek peasant life..."--Book jacket.