History of the Balkans: Volume 2
History of the Balkans: Volume 2

Author: Barbara Jelavich

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1983-07-29

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 9780521274593

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This volume concentrates on the Balkan wars and World War II, focusing particularly on Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia since 1945.

Greek Maritime History
Greek Maritime History

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-05-02

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 9004467726

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This volume presents Greek Maritime History to a wider audience and unravels the historical trajectory of a maritime nation par excellence in the Eastern Mediterranean: the rise of the Greek merchant fleet and its transformation from a peripheral to an international carrier.

The Day of Battle
The Day of Battle

Author: Rick Atkinson

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2008-09-16

Total Pages: 852

ISBN-13: 9780805088618

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In the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and Italy.

Swastika over the Acropolis
Swastika over the Acropolis

Author: Craig Stockings

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-07-04

Total Pages: 664

ISBN-13: 9004254595

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Swastika over the Acropolis is a new, multi-national account which provides a new and compelling interpretation of the Greek campaign of 1941, and its place in the history of World War II. It overturns many previously accepted English-language assumptions about the fighting in Greece in April 1941 – including, for example, the impact usually ascribed to the Luftwaffe, German armour and the conduct of the Greek Army Further, Swastika over the Acropolis demonstrates that this last complete strategic victory by Nazi Germany in World War II is set against a British-Dominion campaign mounted as a withdrawal, not an attempt to ‘save’ Greece from invasion and occupation. At the same time, on the German side, the campaign revealed serious and systemic weaknesses in the planning and the conduct of large-scale operations that would play a significant role in the regime’s later defeats.

British Policy Towards Greece During the Second World War 1941-1944
British Policy Towards Greece During the Second World War 1941-1944

Author: Procopis Papastratis

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1984-03

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9780521243421

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This book examines in detail how British policy towards Greece was formulated and implemented from 1941 to 1944. The defeat of Greece and the fall of the dictatorial regime of General Metaxas confronted the British with new problems, the most important being the reconciliation of military and political objectives. The main political objective was to ensure the continuation of Britain's political influence in Greece after the war. This policy would be greatly facilitated by the restoration of King George, a firm advocate of the British connection, though the King's popularity in Greece had been seriously eroded by his close association with the Metaxas dictatorship in the years before the war. However, a policy of support for the King ran counter to the support offered by the War Office and SOE to the National Liberation Front (EAM), a communist-dominated left-wing organization and by far the strongest resistance movement in Greece.

Inside Hitler's Greece
Inside Hitler's Greece

Author: Mark Mazower

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 9780300089233

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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.