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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.
List of Illustrations
Prologue
1. The Albanian Gateway to Greece
2. Mussolini's War on Greece
3. The German Invasion
4. The Battle for Crete
5. The Occupation Begins
6. Hyperinflation and Starvation
7. The Emergence of the Communists
8. Early Resistance
9. SOE, the Andartes and Gorgopotamos
10. Village and City
11. The Destruction of the Jews
12. The Fractured Resistance
13. The Question of the King
14. The Cairo Conference, August 1943
15. The Italian Armistice and the First Communist Offensive
16. The Resistance in Crete
17. Upheaval in the Greek Government
18. Liberation
19. Towards Sunday December 3rd 1944
20. The Battle for Athens
21. Dhamaskinos, Churchill and the Varkiza Agreement
22. The Government, the Communists and the Elections
23. The Truman Doctrine
24. 1947 – Civil War and American Involvement
25. Terror from Left and Right
26. The Plight of the Greek Children
27. The Marshall Plan
28. The Ending of the Civil War
Epilogue
Chronology
Notes
Select Bibliography
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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.
