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Manchester, William
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill - Alone 1932-1940
During this period, Churchill was tested as few men are: relentlessly pursued by creditors, disowned by his own party, vociferously dismissed by the press as a warmonger, and twice nearly lost his seat in Parliament. Yet despite his personal and political troubles, Churchill managed to assemble a vast, underground intelligence network-both within the British government and on the continent-which provided him with more complete and accurate information on Germany than the British government. Recognizing the horrifying truth, Churchill stood almost alone against Nazi aggression and the he sordid British and French policy of appeasement 766p, plates Source notes. index. Heavy Volume Book
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Busby, Brian [ed]
In Flanders Fields: And Other Poems of the First World War
"Few people alive today had direct experience of the First World War, and yet it seems embedded in the collective consciousness of the combatant nations as a warning to future generations of the futility of military conflict. Our awareness of the terror, loneliness and desperate hope endured by the men who fought this war we owe to the quality of the art that came out of it, not least the poetry. Despite the passage of time, its ability to move and inspire us remains undimmed, as this superb new compilation richly demonstrates. Selected from the work of soldiers killed in action--starting with Rupert Brooke in 1915 and ending with the tragic loss of Wilfred Owen seven days before the Armistice--the poems capture a broad range of emotions, contemplations and states of mind, ranging from anthems about the brutality of war to wistful evocations of home and loved ones left behind. This collection showcases some of the best poetry to emerge from the conflict and stands as a worthy memorial to the collective talent and sacrifice of those who gave their lives." I92p.illus. Book
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Nakou, Lilikas
He Kolasi tou Paidion
218p. Undated [ c 1975? ]Neat tight, text but with usual library marking. [ Only ONE copy found in Worldcat] Ex-Library
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Ailsby, Christopher
Hitler's Sky Warriors: German Paratroopers in Action, 1939-1945
Includes the invasion of Crete 1941 (pp.48-63) "Beginning with an examination of the origins of airborne forces in Germany and Europe during and after World War I, Hitler's Sky Warriors goes on to look at how the concept of airborne assault was developed by the Nazis in the 1930s, leading to the creation of the 7th Flieger Division. The first two years of World War II illustrated the effectiveness of the Fallschirmjager, as German airborne forces won a string of victories in Norway, Belgium, Holland, mainland Greece and Crete. And thought he invasion of Crete was to be the last large-scale German airborne operation of the war, the Fallschirmjager would continue to see heavy fighting in the elite infantry role. From the scorching sands of North Africa to the frozen wastes of Russia, paratrooper units fought with courage and skill to win the respect of friend and foe alike. Hitler's Sky Warriors includes detailed accounts of all the ground campaigns of the parachute divisions, especially in Italy, where their epic defence of Monte Cassino entered military legend."176p. illus.index Book
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Bailey, Ronald H
Partisans and Guerrillas
Volume 12 of the lavishly-illustrated, well-written Time-Life World War II series. No Jacket as Issued.Covers events in the Balkans, the Nazi occupation and the guerilla movements. Sections on the situation in Greece very well illustrated. 208p. illus bibliography.index Book
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Caesar, Julius [Gaius Julius Caesar]
The Conquest of Gaul
Neat tight, clean unmarked copy 283p. glossary Book
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Caesar, Julius [Gaius Julius Caesar]
The Civil War, Together with the Alexandrian War, the African War the Spanish War By Other Hands
Original Vintage Penguin edition L87. 360p, glossary maps. Nice tight copy, name of previous owner on ffep. else fine Book
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Strauss, Barry S.
The Trojan War: A New History
"The Trojan War is the most famous conflict in history, the subject of Homer"s Iliad, one of the cornerstones of Western literature. Although many readers know that this literary masterwork is based on actual events, there is disagreement about how much of Homer"s tale is true. Drawing on recent archeological research, historian and classicist Barry Strauss explains what really happened in Troy more than 3,000 years ago.For many years it was thought that Troy was an insignificant place that never had a chance against the Greek warriors who laid siege and overwhelmed the city. In the old view, the conflict was decided by duels between champions on the plain of Troy. Today we know that Troy was indeed a large and prosperous city, just as Homer said. The Trojans themselves were not Greeks but vassals of the powerful Hittite Empire to the east in modern-day Turkey, and they probably spoke a Hittite-related language called Luwian. The Trojan War was most likely the culmination of a long feud over power, wealth, and honor in western Turkey and the offshore islands. The war itself was mainly a low-intensity conflict, a series of raids on neighboring towns and lands. It seems unlikely that there was ever a siege of Troy; rather some sort of trick -- perhaps involving a wooden horse -- allowed the Greeks to take the city.Strauss shows us where Homer nods,and sometimes exaggerates and distorts, as well. He puts the Trojan War into the context of its time, explaining the strategies and tactics that both sides used, and compares the war to contemporary battles elsewhere in the eastern Mediterranean. With his vivid reconstructions of the conflict and his insights into the famous characters and events of Homer's great epic, Strauss masterfully tells the story of the fall of Troy as history without losing the poetry and grandeur that continue to draw readers to this ancient tale. 258p. index New except for remainder mark Book
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Sulzberger, Cyrus L.
A Long Row of Candles : Memoirs and Diaries 1934-1954
Memoirs of an influential journalist (New York Times Foreign Service) and his experinces in Europe, the Balkans and Greece. 1061p. plates.index. NOTE Large {23x17x7cm ] haeavy volume Book
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Macar, Elcin
Iste Geliyor Kurtulus : Turkiyenin II Du nya Savas inda Yunanistana yardimi/ Erchetai Ti Kourtoulou [IN TURKISH AND IN GREEK]
[Series Izmir Ticaret Odasi Ku ltu r, Sanat ve Tarih Yayinlari, 9.] Parallel Turkish and Greek texts describing the fate of the Turkish ship SS Kurtulus which sank in the Marmara in 1942 when carrying emergency food aid to starving Greece during the Nazi occupation. Translated into Greek by Ferah Kunelaki.153p. illus. bibliography [10 copies found in Worldcat] Book
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Steinbeck, John
The Moon is Down
Published in 1942, the book tells the story of the military occupation of a small town in Northern Europe by the army of an unnamed nation at war with England and Russia. Although the book never names the occupying force as German, references to "The Leader" and "memories of defeats in Belgium and France 20 years ago" clearly suggest it. Written with a purpose to motivate and enthuse the resistance movements in occupied countries, the book has appeared in at least 92 editions across the world. Numerous editions of the book were secretly and illegally published across all of occupied Europe. It was also adapted for stage and film. The film production in 1943 starred Cedric Hardwicke, Henry Travers and Lee J. Cobb. Book
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Tsikopoulos, Kostas
O Phrachtis : andistasiako mythistorima
Aphierontai stin ethniki antistase. Clean tight copy in library binding. Minor signs of library ownership 302p. [2 copies found in Worldcat] Ex-Library
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Maclean,Alastair
The Guns of Navarone
Twelve hundred British soldiers isolated on the small island of Kheros off the Turkish coast, waiting to die. Twelve hundred lives in jeopardy, lives that could be saved if only the guns could be silenced. The guns of Navarone, vigilant, savage and catastrophically accurate. Navarone itself, grim bastion of narrow straits manned by a mixed garrison of Germans and Italians, an apparently impregnable iron fortress. To Captain Keith Mallory, skllled saboteur, trained mountaineer, fell the task of leading the small party detailed to scale the vast, impossible precipice of Navarone and to blow up the guns. The Guns of Navarone is the story of that mission, the tale of a calculated risk taken in the time of war. [A story inspired by the Battle of Leros] This novel was the basis of an exciting movie in 1962 Book
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Kadare, Ismail
Chronicle in Stone: A Novel [Kronike ne Gur]
Albania, that remote, unknown land, has found its voice in the novels of Kadare. In this one . he takes as his subject the shattering impact of World War II as that cataclysm is lived by a small, immensely sensitive boy. After centuries of bondage to the Turks of the Ottoman Empire, Albania falls to the invading Italian fascists, then the Greeks, the Italians again, then the Nazi hordes. Amid floods, British bombing, the action of partisans, the boy undergoes another kind of turbulence, that of growing up, the inner and outer experience ringing strange harmonies. He responds to the beauty of unattainable women, to witchcraft, literature, and later, when he is evacuated from his "stone city" to peasant and village life. Now his existence will be "marvelous, terrifying and extraordinary." Instead, it is primitive, barbaric, a world where the severed arm of a British airman becomes a talisman and "deflowered" girls disappear, possibly murdered by their fathers. Kadare commands a tumultuous, whirling scene as he brings his homeland into the literary mainstream.Man Booker International prize 2005. Edited with an introduction by Davis Bellos. 299p. Book
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Berton, Pierre
Invasion of Canada 1812 1813
"This first edition copy of "The Invasion of Canada" by Pierre Berton is one of a limited number which have been specially bound and slip cased for the collector of fne books. September 6, 1980" l xi, 363p. : maps, illus, Bibliography. index A nice gift book. Book
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Wilson, Edmund
Europe Without Baedeker : Sketches Among the Ruins of Italy, Greece and England together with Notes from a European Diary 1963-64
Observations on the post-war situation in England (chapters 1 & 8) Italy (chapters 2-7,9,10 & 15) and Greece (chapters 11-14) Notably anti- British attitude.Reprinted together with later travel essays, and a new introduction by Jonathan Raban. 467p. Name of previous owner on title page, else near fine. Book
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Wilson, Edmund
Europe Without Baedeker : Sketches Among the Ruins of Italy, Greece and England together with Notes from a European Diary 1963-64
Observations on the post-war situation in England (chapters 1 & 8) Italy (chapters 2-7,9,10 & 15) and Greece (chapters 11-14) Notably anti- British attitude.Reprinted together with later travel essays about Paris, Rome and Budapest. 467p. Book
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Wilson, Edmund
Europe Without Baedeker : Sketches Among the Ruins of Italy, Greece and England
Observations on the post-war situation in England (chapters 1 & 8) Italy (chapters 2-7,9,10 & 15) and Greece (chapters 11-14) Notably anti- British attitudes. 245p. Book
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Iatrides, John O.
Touch Of Loneliness
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Gibbons, Herbert Adams
Venizelos
Greek and Balkan politics,World War I and the various contributions of Eleftherios Venizelos, up to the Peace Conference at Versailles and the Greek claims in Asia Minor.Foldout coloured ethnographical map of "Turkey in-Europe") 384p., illus plates,maps index. Crisp,clean tight text.Spine a little faded and scuffed, else fine. [Only later copies of this US edition found in in WorldCat ] Book
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Mackenzie,Compton [ Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie]
My Life and Times : Octave Seven 1931-1938
Includes information on the publication of his "Athenian" and "Greek" Memories (dealing with events during WWI in Athens and the Aegean) and his prosecution under the Official SecTets Act for publishing details of espionage and political stupidities during that period.320p+plates, Neat, tight c0py, some minor library marks. Ex-Library
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Smithson,R.L.
Dowry of Danger
British soldier returns to Athens and reconstructs the lost memories of his experiences in Athens during the Civil War. 204p. [9 copies in WorldCat] Book
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Gerolymatos, Andre
The Balkan Wars : Myth, Reality, and the Eternal Conflict
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Davis, Richard Harding [ Davis, Charles Belmont]
Adventures and Letters
Richard Harding Davis (April 18, 1864 - April 11, 1916) was a journalist... known foremost as the first American war correspondent to cover the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War , This collection of his letters was edited by his younger brother Charles Belmont Davis.417p. 18 plates. index Book
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Grazebrook, O.F. [Owen Francis]
Nicanor of Athens : The Autobiography of an Unkown Citizen
"Nicanor's story is an attempt to picture life in the great days of a great war... The raw materials of my book are the cold lucid pages of Thucydides, who owned gold mines and who wrote history; the pamphlets of Plato who was a humanist, but who has a charm which is unique; the plays of Aristophanes the poet, which are inspired ed with that prophetic instinct which is the great gift of the comic Muse; and last the turgid pages of the egregious Xenophon." 359p. Maps on end papers. Book
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Periclean Athens
Gorgo : a Romance of old Athens
Original vintage copy. Written by an American Professor of Greek this historical novel is set in the time of the Plague and the political and philosophical confrontations of Periclean Athens and the Peloponnesian War and told as if from the personal memories of Theramenes and his love forGorgo, the Spartan girl.Clean compete text, Frontis, 507p + 5 plates.Pencilled name and book plate of the original owner. Taped on the rear end papers are two yellowed newsprint book reviews dated September 1903 which have stained the paper.Front hinge weak. Covers show wear and tear. Book
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Clarke, Lindsay
The Return from Troy
The Return from Troy is the second book in the Troy series ''Vigorous new life is breathed into the myth's of Homer's Iliad in Lindsay Clarke's new dramatic retelling of the wars fought for the Bronze Age City of Troy.Paris and Helen, Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, Achilles, Odysseus and Hector are rejuvenated in this startlingly contemporary drama of the passions.Here two powerful generations of men and women live out their destinies in the timeless zone where myth and history intersect, and where quarrels among immortal gods mirror the conflicts of the human heart. This imaginative retelling will surely benefit from the renewed interest in this classic myth." Book
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Gibberd, Kathleen [ed]
Greece (British Survey Handbooks)
[British Society For International Understanding, British Survey Handbooks Series No. 3 ]Introductory history of Greece prior to WW.II and devastating effects of the occupation on the people and the economy. 106p. index. fold out map.. Clean crisp unmarked copy Book
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Gibberd, Kathleen
Greece (British Survey Handbooks)
[British Society For International Understanding, British Survey Handbooks Series No. 3 ]Introductory history of Greece prior to WW.II and devastating effects of the occupation on the people and the economy. 106p. index. fold out map. Discarded from the Ontario Legislative Library. Contents neat and complete, spine damaged, usual library marks. Ex-Library
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The Modern Greeks
Burn, A.R.(Andrew Robert)
and 45 leaves f photographs Lyrical impressions of the resilience of thew Greek pople during World War II. The profits from this book were dedicated to Greek Relief efforts.53p.+ frontis and 5 leavres of photographs Book
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Tacopoulos, Paris [Takopoulos, P]
The Apostates
Translation of "Hoi apostatai" by Philip Ramp"'The action takes place during the Occupation of Greece by the Axis powers. The story is set in a private school, its professors (some more or less mediocre, others frankly comical) pupils and their families. The pupils care very little about their scholarly obligations, and very much about the Resistance (the boys) and about the Resistance and the art of loving (the girls) They are playing a dangerous game and three lose ther lives,]... a wise, sad and beautifully written book. xxx.135p. Stamp of a bookstore in Athens, Greece - else fine. Book
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Lloyd,Alan
Marathon : The Story of Civilizations on Collision Course
The author sets the historical background to this clash of cultures , contrasting the might of the Persian Empire with the evolving institutions of the Greek city-state... as the Greeks win against all odds and set a precedent ...that kept the Eastern empire out of Europe and ensured that the Greek way of life would set the pattern for Western culture . 216p.plates bibliography. Book
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Lancaster, Osbert
Classical Landscape with Figures
"This is not a ramble, nor a travel book, not yet a guide, but a description in the 18th century meaning of the term" These witty, and amusing observations - both verbal and visual - are based on his experience of Greece in 1944 when "The British government had assigned him to the Athens embassy as first secretary. After 18 months he returned to London with a sheaf of sketches of what he had seen." 224p. Illus+ 4 double sided color plates. map, index. The pale yellow linen cover has not aged well and is stained, but the content is still neat and unmarked. Book
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Clarke, Lindsay
The Return from Troy
The Return from Troy is the second book in the Troy series ''Vigorous new life is breathed into the myth's of Homer's Iliad in Lindsay Clarke's new dramatic retelling of the wars fought for the Bronze Age City of Troy.Paris and Helen, Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, Achilles, Odysseus and Hector are rejuvenated in this startlingly contemporary drama of the passions.Here two powerful generations of men and women live out their destinies in the timeless zone where myth and history intersect, and where quarrels among immortal gods mirror the conflicts of the human heart. This imaginative retelling will surely benefit from the renewed interest in this classic myth." Book
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Bradley,Marion Zimmer
The Firebrand
"Blending archaeological facts and the myths of gods and heroes. Reinventing for us Achilles,Aeneas,Hector, Patroclus, Helen of Troy Odysseus,Agamenmnon,Menelaus as living people engaged in a desperate struggle that dooms both the victors and vanquished. Their fate seen through the eyes of Kassandra, priestess, princess and passionate woman with the spirit of a warrior." 603p. Book
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Clogg, Richard
Anglo-Greek Attitudes: Studies in History
The relationship between Britain and Greece, situated at the opposite ends of Europe has been close and troubled. The essays in this book focus on aspects of British-Greek relations, military, diplomatic and academic, during the 20th century, with particular emphasis on World WarII. Includes : Anglo-Greek Attitudes The British School at Athens and the Modern History of Greece/ The 'Ingenious Enthusiasm' of Dr Burrows and the 'Unsatiated Hatred' of Professor Toynbee / The Special Operations Executive in Greece 'Pearls from Swine/ The Foreign Office Papers, S.O.E. and the Greek Resistance / Distant Cousins: The Special Operations Executive and the Office of Strategic Services at Odds Over Greece / The Greek Government-in-Exile 1941-44 Index 207p.notes, index.Remainder mark, else as new. Book
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Sobel, Robert
Thucydides : the Peloponnesian Wars
Summary and essential details for students 70p. Book
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Iatrides, John O. (editor); Couloumbis, Theodore A. (editor)
Greece in the 1940s: A Nation in Crisis
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Poole, Lynn & Poole,Gray
One Passion, Two Loves : The Story of Heinrich and Sophia Schliemann, Discoverers of Troy
A popular biography with details of their archaeological discoveries in Mycenae and 299p. plates.index Book
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Wood,Michael
In Search of the Trojan War
Companion volume to TV series : "..thrilling search for the historical truths behind the larger than life legend of Troy" 272p. illus.(some col.) maps.bibliography.index.Slight wear to paper covers. Book
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The Greek American Operational Groups
VIDEO The U.S.s first experiment with clandestine commando warfare took place in World War II. Under a secret OSS plan, small groups of specially trained U.S. Army infantrymen of various ethnic backgrounds were infiltrated into occupied Europe to assist local partisan groups in resisting the Nazis. Among these secret ""Operational Groups" were Greek Americans, whose mission was to make the German withdrawal from Greece in 1944 as costly as possible. They succeeded far beyond expectations, but the records of their secret service were sealed for forty years, and their story is largely unknown. This short video brings their bravery to light in anticipation of a full-length documentary. Book
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Smith,Doug
Memoirs of an Old Sweat
Marching in the military footprints of Pistol, Svejk and Turvey these hilarious episodes of heroic Canadian soldiers in wartime were first enjoyed by the readers of the "Legionary" magazine. Now collected together for less privileged readers to appreciate! . Book
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Petrakis,Harry Mark
Hour of the Bell
ENDIn 1821, in the geographically small but culturally and historically rich country of Greece, a revolution began to overturn four terrible centuries of slavery the Greeks had endured under the Ottoman Turks. Harry Mark Petrakis's historical novel The Hour of the Bell recalls the first year of the revolt. Petrakis provides a panoramic view of the conflict through the stories of a variety of characters, including a village priest grief-stricken over the killing of his Turkish neighbors; a guerilla captain leading a band of wild mountain fighters against the Turkish garrisons; the wife of Prince Petrobey of the Mani, embittered by the fighting that takes the lives of her sons; a sea captain commanding the smaller Greek brigs in brilliant forays against the larger Turkish frigates; and a scribe to the legendary General Kolokotronis. Each character provides a defining perspective on the small but fierce conflict that altered the course of European history. " ...tales of barbarity ,of stunning cruelty and heroism, of compassion, love, sacrifice, jealousy, ambition and betrayal-on both sides of the conflict." 359p. Maps on end papers Book
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Lancaster, Osbert
Classical Landscape with Figures
"This is not a ramble, nor a travel book, not yet a guide, but a description in the 18th century meaning of the term" These witty, and amusing observations - both verbal and visual - are based on his experience of Greece in 1944 when "The British government had assigned him to the Athens embassy as first secretary. After 18 months he returned to London with a sheaf of sketches of what he had seen." 224p. Illus+ 4 double sided color plates. map, index.n Book
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Stavrianos, L.S. [Lefteri Stavrou]
Greece : American Dilemma and Opportunity
Analaysis of modern Greece during World War II and the Civil War and of American involvement there. 246p. index. VG clean tight copy, but spine fading and lettering obscured. Shadow of bookplate on ffep Book
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Gerolymatos, Andre
Guerrilla Warfare and Espionage in Greece, 1940-44
Meticulously researched from Greek, British and American sources including unpublished archival records. 398p. bibliography, index. Book
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Iatrides, John O.
Greece at the Crossroads: The Civil War and Its Legacy
A collection of essays based on papers presented originally at a conference organized by the Lehrman Institute and held in the Vilvorde Conference Center in Copenhagen, Denmark, June 3-5, 1987. 340P. Book
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Hadjifotiou, Zachos [Chatzephotiou]
Love and War
Zachos Hadjifotiou was born in 1923 in Athens. At the age of 17, when the Germans invaded Greece, he fled to the Middle East and fought in Africa at Tobruk and El Alamein, and in Italy with the Rimini Brigade. This is his personal account of his personal and military adventures. English translation by Terry Crosfield. 166p. + 11 leaves of plates.[7 copies found in WorldCat] Book
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Elyot, Amanda
The Memoirs of Helen of Troy
As despised as she was desired, Helen of Troy is one of history's most notorious women. In this groundbreaking and richly dramatic novel, the familiar story of passion and violence is told from a new perspective: that of Helen herself. 309p. Book
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Elyot, Amanda
The Memoirs of Helen of Troy
As despised as she was desired, Helen of Troy is one of history's most notorious women. In this groundbreaking and richly dramatic novel, the familiar story of passion and violence is told from a new perspective: that of Helen herself. Book
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