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Book The struggle for Greece  1941 9

Download or read book The struggle for Greece 1941 9 written by C.M. Woodhouse and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Struggle for Greece  1941 1949

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.

Book The Struggle for Greece  1941 1949

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.

Book Struggle for Liberation

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.

Book Inside Hitler s Greece

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Mazower
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2001-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300089233
  • Pages : 474 pages

Download or read book Inside Hitler s Greece written by Mark Mazower and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archival materials and first-hand accounts create an insightful study of the impact of the Nazi occupation of Greece on the lives, psyches, and values of ordinary people.

Book The Battle of Greece  1940 1941

Download or read book The Battle of Greece 1940 1941 written by Alexandros Papagos and published by Athens : Scazikis "Alpha" Editions. This book was released on 1949 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Voices in the Nation

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  • Author : Janet Hart
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2018-07-05
  • ISBN : 1501725521
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book New Voices in the Nation written by Janet Hart and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "New Voices in the Nation".

Book The Struggle for Crete  20 May   1 June 1941

Download or read book The Struggle for Crete 20 May 1 June 1941 written by I. McD. G. Stewart and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an account of the struggle for Crete during World War II, this book contains some of the author's own experiences as a Medical Officer at the time of the battle. The author describes the leadership, the geography, the communications problems and the delayed counter-attack.

Book Crete

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  • Author : Antony Beevor
  • Publisher : John Murray
  • Release : 2011-10-13
  • ISBN : 1848546351
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Crete written by Antony Beevor and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed historian and best-selling author Antony Beevor vividly brings to life the epic struggles that took place in Second World War Crete - reissued with a new introduction. 'The best book we have got on Crete' Observer The Germans expected their airborne attack on Crete in 1941 - a unique event in the history of warfare - to be a textbook victory based on tactical surprise. They had no idea that the British, using Ultra intercepts, knew their plans and had laid a carefully-planned trap. It should have been the first German defeat of the war, but a fatal misunderstanding turned the battle round. Nor did the conflict end there. Ferocious Cretan freedom fighters mounted a heroic resistance, aided by a dramatic cast of British officers from Special Operations Executive.

Book The Battle of Greece  1940 1941

Download or read book The Battle of Greece 1940 1941 written by Alexander Papagos and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The German Campaigns in the Balkans  spring  1941

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:

Book The Kapetanios

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  • Author : Dominique Eudes
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN : 085345275X
  • Pages : 403 pages

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.

Book Greece  1941   49  From Resistance to Civil War

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:

Book German Antiguerrilla Operations in the Balkans  1941 1944

Download or read book German Antiguerrilla Operations in the Balkans 1941 1944 written by Robert M. Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Diary of a Disaster

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  • Author : Robin Higham
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2014-07-11
  • ISBN : 0813150507
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Diary of a Disaster written by Robin Higham and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 28, 1940, the Italian army under Benito Mussolini invaded Greece. The British had insisted on guaranteeing Greek and Turkish neutrality, despite the fact that Greece was never more than a limited campaign in an unlimited war as far as they were concerned. The British, however, were never quite sure that Greece was not their last foothold in Europe, and they harbored dreams of holding on to this last bastion of civilization and of protecting it with a diplomatic and military alliance -- a Balkan bloc. These dreams bore little relation to military and economic realities, and so the stage was set for tragedy. In Diary of a Disaster, Robin Higham details the unfolding events from the invasion, though the Italian defeat and the subsequent German invasion, until the British evacuation at the end of April 1941. The Greek army, while tough, was small and based largely upon reserves. They were also largely equipped with obsolete French, Polish, and Czech arms for which there was now no other source than captured Italian materiel. Transportation was also lacking as Greece lacked all-weather roads over much of the country, had no all-weather airport, and only one rail line connecting Athens with Salonika and Florina in the north. Added to the woes of the Greek military, the British commander-in-chief for the Middle East, Sir Archibald Wavell, faced huge logistical challenges as well. Based in Cairo, he was responsible for a huge theatre of operation, from hostile Vichy French forces in Syria to the Boers in South Africa nearly six thousand miles away. His air force was comprised of only a handful of modern aircraft with biplanes and outdated, early monoplanes making up the bulk of his force. Radar was also unavailable to him. His navy was woefully short on destroyers and often incommunicado while at sea. While Wavell had roughly 500,000 men under his command, he was severely limited in how he could use them. The South Africans could only be deployed in East Africa and the Austrians and New Zealanders could not be employed without the consent of their home governments. In short, Churchill had instructed Wavell to offer support that he did not really have and could not afford to give to the Greeks. Higham walks readers through these events as they unfold like a modern Greek tragedy. Using the format of a diary, he recounts day-by-day the British efforts though the failure of Operation Lustre, which no one outside of London thought had any chance of stemming the Nazi tide in Greece.

Book Crete 1941  Eyewitnessed

Download or read book Crete 1941 Eyewitnessed written by Costas N. Hadjipateras and published by Efstathiadis Group/Bay Foreing Langua. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[This] is the story of all those Greeks, Allies and Germans who lived and witnessed every moment of the eleven-day battle of Crete, the one and only air-borne invasion in history. Combined with the six-month Greek epic on Mainland Greece this epoch-making campaign greatly contributed in turning the tide of World War II in favour of the Allies. This book is an anthology of authentic testimonies. Supported by letters, diaries, poems, photographs, sketches, it recaptures ... the 'feel' of this fateful battle"--P. [4] of cover.

Book Greece and Crete  1941

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  • Author : Christopher Buckley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1941
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 311 pages

Download or read book Greece and Crete 1941 written by Christopher Buckley and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: