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Greece, the Decade of War: Occupation, Resistance and Civil War
David Brewer
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Description for Greece, the Decade of War: Occupation, Resistance and Civil War
Hardback. Complete history of Greece during World War II and Civil War. Num Pages: 336 pages, 22bw in 8pp plates, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVG; HBW; HBWQ; JPFQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 25. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd. United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780768540
SKU
V9781780768540
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About David Brewer
David Brewer is the author of Greece, the Hidden Centuries and The Flame of Freedom: The Greek War of Independence, 1821-1833. After studying Classics at Oxford University he divided his working life between teaching, journalism and business before devoting himself to the study of the history of Greece.
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