Download or read book The Struggle for Greece 1941 1949 written by Christopher Montague Woodhouse and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 2003 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Woodhouse's prime position as commander of the Allied Military Mission to the Greek guerillas in German-occupied Greece enabled him to write the definitive history of the Greek civil war--an account of the turning point in Communist fortunes in Europe that has achieved the status of a classic. He analyzes the characters, ideologies, and events behind one of the longest and most bitter civil wars of modern times. With an Introduction by Richard Clogg.
Download or read book The Struggle for Greece 1941 1949 written by C. M. Woodhouse and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As commander of the Allied Military Mission to the Greek guerrillas in Greece in 1943-4, C.M. Woodhouse has to hold an uneasy balance between the communist and government sides. Against a background of conflicting communist doctrine, shifting foreign alliances, territorial disputes and personality differences, the communist struggle for Greece unfolded in three rounds. The first began in 1941 with the German occupation of Greece when the National Liberation Front attempted to regain control of the country and overthrow the monarchy. In the second round, the communists tried to seize power at the end of the German occupation in December 1944 and were frustrated by the intervention of British forces. The third round (1946-9) was marked by US intervention, UN fact-finding missions, and the shift from guerrilla tactics to conventional warfare. The communists were weakened by internal feuding and overcome by the US forces. The author based his research on interviews with participants, documentary sources and his own experience. He analyzes the characters, ideologies and events behind one of the longest and most bitter civil wars of modern times.
Download or read book Studies in the History of the Greek Civil War 1945 1949 written by Lars Bærentzen and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers published in this volume were originally read at the Conference on the Greek Civil War 1945-49 which was held at the Vilvorde Conference Centre in Copenhagen from 30 August to 1 September 1984.
Download or read book A Brief History of Greece written by Dimitrios Karamitsos and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the turbulant period of Greek history from 1941 to 1949 which was full of fights and political upsets. Its beginning includes, in brief, the defense of Greece against Italy and Germany. It follows the triple Occupation with many atrocities of occupational forces because of the Greek National Resistance. Many citizens mainly in Athens died because of famine. The lack of food in Greece was due to the British navy block of supplies to incommode the Germans. Also, the occupational forces retained a great amount of agricultural production for their needs.There were many resistance groups in Greece but the biggest one was the left EAM and its military counterpart ELAS. The leaders of EAM-ELAS were communists (Siantos, Tzimas, Velouchiotis) but there were many non-left guerrillas among them because initially, the leadership from communists was not apparent.We can distinct three successive phases of a bloody civil war. The first phase began in the middle of 1943 and lasted till the liberation in October 1944. ELAS tried to exterminate all the other resistance groups in Western Greece (EDES under N. Zervas), in Macedonia (PAO), in Midland (EKKA of D. Psaros), in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace (EOEA group of A. Fosterides), in Peloponnese (NGO anticommunists) and in Athens (X organization of G. Grivas). In the same period, the Security Battalions were organized by PM John Rallis to fight against the ELAS. In Kilkis in Central Macedonia and in Meligalas in Peloponnese after fights with ELAS, 2-4 thousand non-communists (guerrillas) and civilians were executed despite being captives.The second phase includes the fights of ELAS from December of 1944 till early January 1945 in Athens (Decembriana) against the G. Papandreou government. British troops participated as well against ELAS which was finally defeated and signed an agreement at the Varkiza suburb. The third phase was the long-lasting civil war (1946-1949), when the communist's guerrillas self-named as Democratic Army fought against the National Army of the Greek state.The guerrillas recruited male and female adults but even young children 15-16 years old and after short-term training send them to battle. Also, more than 28.000 kidnapped children 4-15 years old were transferred to countries of Eastern Europe. Some children came from guerrillas' families but most of the parents were against childrens' separation from them. Queen Frederica was actively involved in the organization of 53 child camps, where children of villagers were housed, educated, and lived in a safe environment avoiding the danger of kidnapping from the guerrillas.From May of 1947, the Greek state organized a special military camp on the island of Makronisos where leftist unarmed soldiers lived, and the circumstances were very depressing for them.The communists were defeated at the end of August 1949. The guerrillas who survived went to Eastern European countries and in ESSR (mainly Taskendi).The years 1941-1949 left indelible traces of blood and lamentation in almost every Greek family, while the consequences were overall tragic: many dead and injured people, lots of burned villages, and infrastructure irreversibly damaged. During the Occupation of Greece, the Germans send 69,151 Jews to death camps in Germany and Poland (mainly to Auschwitz) and only a few people of them came back alive. During the Occupation and the subsequent 4 years, a left organization named OPLA murdered selected persons (anticommunists but also the Trotskyists).I believe that the knowledge of our history is a key so as the succeeding generations avoid the mistakes of their ancestors and prevent our nation's disunity in the future.My main aim is to offer to Greeks who live abroad ─especially the second or third generation─ an opportunity to learn what happened in that critical period of Greek history. Pou
Download or read book An International Civil War written by André Gerolymatos and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
Download or read book Greece 1941 49 From Resistance to Civil War written by Haris Vlavianos and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992-01-13 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Kapetanios written by Dominique Eudes and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Heroes Fight Like Greeks written by Ronald J. Drez and published by Ghost Road Press. This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful and engaging historical narrative, decorated combat veteran and critically acclaimed author Ronald J. Drez unfolds the astounding tale of the arduous Greek Resistance against the Axis Powers in World War II. Along with Great Britain, Greece was the only country to stand against the Pact of Steel and the dreaded Nazi and Fascist regimes of Hitler and Mussolini. Although Greece technically fell to Germany in 1941, the indomitable spirit and courage of the Greek people never did. Indeed, the Nazis feared the fierce Greek Resistance fighters so much that Hitler was never able to seize control of any Greek land. In this meticulously researched volume, Drez has succeeded in shining a light into one of the most overlooked aspects in the great annals of World War II history. Packed with personal testimony and many rare photographs and illustrations, Heroes Fight Like Greeks is an indisputably important report on one of the most harrowing World War II stories. Foreword by Douglas Brinkley
Download or read book Greece 1941 49 written by Haris Vlavianos and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Red Acropolis Black Terror written by Andre Gerolymatos and published by . This book was released on 2004-07-06 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full, nonpartisan history of the Greek Civil War, the brutal guerrilla conflict that launched the Cold War
Download or read book Greece 1940 1949 Occupation Resistance Civil War written by Richard Clogg and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-10-23 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the decade of the 1940s Greece experienced harsh German/Italian/Bulgarian occupation, the emergence of a powerful resistance movement and civil war between communist and nationalists. This critical period in the country's modern history is graphically illustrated through contemporary documents, many of them translated from Greek, many of them difficult to access. This annotated documentary collection, which is prefaced by a substantial introduction, affords a penetrating insight into the history of the 1940s from a variety of perspectives.
Download or read book Greece 1940 1949 Occupation Resistance Civil War written by Richard Clogg and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-10-23 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the decade of the 1940s Greece experienced harsh German/Italian/Bulgarian occupation, the emergence of a powerful resistance movement and civil war between communist and nationalists. This critical period in the country's modern history is graphically illustrated through contemporary documents, many of them translated from Greek, many of them difficult to access. This annotated documentary collection, which is prefaced by a substantial introduction, affords a penetrating insight into the history of the 1940s from a variety of perspectives.
Download or read book Greece 1941 49 written by Haris Vlavianos and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rebel Governance in Civil War written by Ana Arjona and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The British Press and the Greek Crisis 1943 1949 written by Gioula Koutsopanagou and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first detailed analysis of how interactions between government policy and Fleet Street affected the political coverage of the Greek civil war, one of the first major confrontations of the Cold War. During this period the exponential growth of media influence was an immensely potent weapon of psychological warfare. Throughout the 1940s the press maintained its position as the most powerful medium and its influence remained unchallenged. The documentary record shows that a British media consensus was more fabricated than spontaneous, and the tools of media persuasion and manipulation were extremely important in building acceptance for British foreign policy. Gioula Koutsopanagou examines how this media consensus was influenced and molded by the British government and how Foreign Office channels were key to molding public attitudes to British foreign policy. These channels included system of briefings given by the News Department to the diplomatic correspondents, and the contacts between embassies and the British foreign correspondents.
Download or read book The German Campaigns in the Balkans spring 1941 written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Struggle for Liberation written by George J. Alevizakis and published by . This book was released on 2003-11-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Alevizakis, sixteen when the Germans attacked the island of Crete, his birthplace, vowed to do everything he could to thwart them. His adventures and experiences are detailed in Struggle for Liberation. After his honorable discharge in 1946, he worked in Athens for the Civil Aviation, air to ground communications before taking a position with the Communications Branch of the AMAG. In 1950, he left Greece for New York to work for the United Nations, Wireless Communications Branch, and a year later moved to Montreal and registered at Sir George Williams College, (Concordia University), graduating with a Bachelor of Commerce Degree. Moving to Toronto, where he now resides, he continued his studies in a post graduate M.B.A. program. Struggle for Liberation is his first book. Book jacket.
