Greece, the Decade of War

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 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. Acclaimed historian of Greece David Brewer here investigates this tumultuous decade in Greece's modern history, providing a compelling military and political history.

Autorentext

David Brewer is an independent scholar. He studied Classics at Oxford University, UK.

Inhalt

Introduction1. Albanian Prelude2. Mussolini's War on Greece3. German Invasion4. The Battle for Crete5. The Occupation Begins6. Hyperinflation and Starvation7. The Emergence of the Communists8. Early Resistance9. The 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 Athens