Moss,W.StanleyMareMagnum
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1950On 26 April 1944, Generalmajor Karl Kreipe, commanding the German forces occupying Crete, left H Q at Heraklion for his perisonal quarters. He never arrived. Instead, he was driven past 24 of his own guard posts, acknowledging the sentries'salutes while a hidden British officer pressed a gun into his side. 20 days later Kreipe and his chief abductors - Major Patrick Leigh-Fermor and the author - reached British-held Cairo. One of the finest true adventure stories of the last war, this justly famous book describes the secret landings, the plan, the stalking and victim. Moss's sharp eye brings to life the national characteristics of thw German solider, the British officer, and the Cretan andarte - characteristics which often showed themselves all too strongly during the day of "monotony, and sweat, and thirst, and sickening fear' in the mountains, hiding from a huge Nazi manhunt. The tale (based on Moss's own diaries) is told with humour and tolerance and, the fear and discomfort forgotten, is today remembered as one of romantic valour. The exploit earned even the Germans' grudging admiration, and showed them that their most exalted commanders were not safe from death or capture. 192 p. plates,maps Book
1983Moving personal testimony of the way the Jews were deported from Greece to concentration camps during the Nazi occupation. Errikos Sevillias was born in Athens in 1901 into a Sephardic family. He learned how to work in leather as a child and opened his own leather workshop when he was 16. From 1919 until 1923 he served in the Greek army, for three years fighting in Asia Minor. After the war he reopened his workshop, married, and had a daughter. Life, as he writes, "went along well" until he experienced "an inexplicable and unexpected great adventure," meaning Auschwitz. Errikos Sevillias was killed in Athens by a motorcycle in 1974, when he was 73 years old. The manuscript of this book was found among his papers after he died. He describes the appalling events at Auschwitz with extraordinary calm, saying merely that he couldn't understand "what they wanted in doing such an unjust and evil thing." His simple statements of events give the clearest possible image of the indescribable. The manuscript was translated by Nikos Stavroulakis, who also has provided an extremely useful historical outline of the Jewish presence in Greece with a description of the occupation and final solution. 125p.+ plates Book
1957An account of the American aid sent under the Marshall Plan for the reconstruction of Greece after the total destruction of the economy and infrastructure caused by the German and Italian invasions, the Nazi occupation, and the Civil War that followed. 240p. plates, statistical tables.Maps on end papers. Spine slightly sun-faded, else near fine. Book
1976Diary of important events in Athens from the invasion of Greece by the Italians in October 1940 to the arrival of Nazi German forces in spring 1941. 234p. Crisp copy, paper age toned, else fas new Book
1958The author's experiences in the Aegean islands during World war II, especially his encounters with "Achilles" a guerilla leader on the island of Samos.[ John Lincoln was the pseudonym of Maurice Cardiff who worked at the British Council in Athens.] 256p. maps on end papers Book
1944This Australian journalist was a War Correspondent whose despatches were published in the Times and the and the Guardian. This book uses includes first hand accounts from some of the Australian and NZ troops who fought in Crete against the German paratroopers who invaded the island. xvi,152p. plates map.Neat clean copy but with sun-faded slightly scuffed spine, ffep missing. Book
1944A wide ranging collection of essays and extracts about Greece, both ancient and modern, '' Published in Aid of the Greek Red Cross for relief and post-war work and under the auspices of the Greek Government Department of Information." in 1944. 200p.+plates, index. Neat clean copy, name of owner, cover some scuffed. Book
1996Greek translation of Lord Byron's letters from Greece edited by Leslie Marchand and translated by Demosthenes Kourtovik. Dated list of letters 1809-18011 and 1823-1824. Untrimmed.381p. index. Inscription in Greek on half-title, else fine. Book
1962Description of a cruse through the Mediterranean with Greece the ultimate destination. 160p plates bibliography, index. Book
1930First UK edition of this biography by the distinguished French writer.Translated inti English by Hamish Miles. The translator has restored the original texts of quotations that Maurois had rendered into French and "in many instances .to give .more complete quotations than the author found practicable in French".) 464p. plates, bibliography. index. Red cloth binding, front hinge starting. Book
1998This biography investigates the life and phenomenon of Edward John Trelawny - writer, adventurer, romantic and friend to Shelley and Byron. Trelawny's is a story where the boundaries between fantasy and reality were blurred with fatal consequences. It is a story inextricably linked with Byron, and with the Greek War of Independence - a war which provided both Romantic Europe and Edward Trelawny with their most extravagant challenge. The story of Trelawny's role in the war, his cave, and his discovery of Odysseus' treasure has all the ingredients of a Byronic romance. It is a story of betrayal and greed, of deluded idealism and physical courage played out against one of the most ferocious wars even the Balkans has seen. 398p. plates bibliography.index Book
2006"This book offers creative renditions of three myths, ranging from the theatrical to the poetic, The first myth, Andromeda, is presented in dramatic form and deals with the hero Perseus, slayer of the Medusa. The second and third myths, Antiope and Nauplius are cast as epic poems reflecting the grandeur and pathos of ancient Greek thought. 87p. Crisp copy but with underlinings, else very good Book
1997George Gordon, Lord Byron was born with a deformed foot. He was manic-depressive, athletic, and erotic. He embodied the romantic, revolutionary, patriotic, and free-living life of poetry as no one before him. He was the greatest artistic celebrity of his time, inspiring composers and poets, moving among eminences. Genuinely bisexual, he was involved in affairs with fellow students at Harrow and Cambridge. He fathered children on chambermaids, was incestuously involved with his half-sister, married a woman who soon left him. He was linked with the scandalous Caroline Lamb, with Mary Shelley's half-sister Claire Clairmont, with the married Countess Teresa Guiccioli in Ravenna. Constantly in debt, he traveled in Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Greece, Albania, and Italy, as though he could feel truly alive only in exile. The first publication of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" in 1812 made him famous, if not rich. He joined forces with Shelley in Italy just before Shelley drowned at sea; he undertook his poetic masterpiece, Don Juan, in Italy and then joined the Greek forces revolting against the Turks. His death of fever in 1824 served as a rallying cry for the 1830 revolutions. This brilliant, handsome, charismatic psychological misfit exerted an inestimable impact on the Romantic movement and the sensibility of the entire nineteenth century.530p.bibliography, index Book
1977This biography of one of the nineteenth century's most dazzling women is also a dramatic and exciting historical story set against a background of glittering cities and filled with a cast of fascinating characters. Jane Digby, born in 1807, was the daughter of a respected English noble family. At seventeen she married Lord Ellenborough (later the British Viceroy of India), but after just four years she left him for an Austrian prince - a separation that led to one of England's most scandalous divorce cases. That relationship was not to last long, however. From her prince Jane went on to the court of King Ludwig of Bavaria. Next she married a baron in Ludwig's court, only to leave him for the Count Spiridion Theotocky Greek count and, later, an Albanian brigand, Christodoulos Hadjipetros. In her forties she settled at last in a long and satisfying marriage to a Bedouin Sheik living half the year in Damascus and half the year in the desert. 268p. plates bibliography, index. Book
1996Lord Byron as a vampire? That notion may not explain the aberrant behavior of the much-revered Romantic poet, but it definitely provides a racy foundation for Holland's engaging and sophisticated debut novel. The story begins in London in the present, as lovely young Rebecca Carville petitions her lawyer for the keys to the family crypt, where she hopes to find the sole existing copy of Byron's memoirs. Instead, she finds Byron himself, who proceeds to tell her the story of how he became a vampire during his journey to Greece. The first half of Byron's account remains within the conventionsof the horror genre, as the great poet desperately fights the efforts of the powerful Greek vardoulacha, who eventually drains his blood. Once Byron begins to explore his new nature, however, Holland embarks on a remarkable literary journey, touching on how the poet's burden might have affected his relationships with the women in his life as well as his problematic dealings with Shelley. Other subplots recall the early Anne Rice novels, particularly the sections in which Byron tries to unite the vampires and help the Greeks in their revolt against the Turks. But the most compelling portions of the book probe the links between blood and family that surface when Byron discovers that he must take the life of a relative in order to maintain his youthful beauty. Both the period detail and the biographical material are exquisitely rendered, and the shocking revelation that brings the story full circle and places Rebecca Carville in extreme peril makes for a nice surprise ending. With this striking, highly original debut, Holland offers a valuable addition to the vampire legend. 75, 000 first printing; $100, 000 ad/promo; BOMC and QPB selection; simultaneous Simon & Schuster Audio. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Noted poet Lord Byron recounts to a frightened young woman the harrowing events that led to his becoming a vampire of tremendous power, a true Lord of the Dead. While traveling through 19th-century Greece, he was befriended by a centuries-old Turk, who first lured him into the vampire life and then seemingly murdered the one woman Byron had ever loved, the beautiful slave Haidee. Holland's uneven first novel closely follows the actual events of Byron's life Book
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1992Good standard travel guide to Greece for tourists. 722p. maps. index Book
1993Comprehensive guide to Greece 738p. illus.maps. index .HAs pencil notes by previous owner. Book
2013Putting Greece back on the cultural and political map of the "Long 1960s," this book traces the dissent and activism of anti-regime students during the dictatorship of the Colonels (1967-74). It explores the cultural as well as ideological protest of Greek student activists, illustrating how these "children of the dictatorship" managed to re-appropriate indigenous folk tradition for their "progressive" purposes and how their transnational exchange molded a particular local protest culture. It examines how the students social and political practices became a major source of pressure on the Colonels regime, finding its apogee in the three day Polytechnic uprising of November 1973 which laid the foundations for a total reshaping of Greek political culture in the following decades. Kostis Kornetis is Assistant Professor at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at New York University Pages: 373p. illus. bibliography, index Book
1949Discussion of Communists and the Civil War Greece. 258p.Some slight foxing on outside of pages Book
1968359p. illus incex Book
2001"An exclusive edition from The Guardian with an introduction [ Pages 3-15] is about the filming of "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" on the island. map. 95p, Book
1965Delightful affectionate account of Skopelos and the Northern Sporades,where the author built a house, and where he became involved in a local political campaign. Amusing and perceptive.205p (later re-issued under th e title "An Island in Greece-On the Shores of Skopelos") Book
2001Nelly was the pseudonym under which Greek photographer Elli Souyoulzoglou-Seraidari (1899-1998) achieved fame for her work in Dresden, Athens and New York. She became the official national photographer of her country and her works were exhibited in the Greek booth at the world exhibition in New York in 1939. This volume unites a selection of her finest portraits, nudes, dance stills, architecture photography and images of rural Greece.Based on a photography exhibit at the Benaki Museum, Athens. Text in English and German. 105p.+ 2 colour, 58 duotone and monochrome plates and 8 monochrome illustrations. NEW still in original shrink wrap Book
2003Evocative black and white pictures by one of Greece's most famous photographers. Bi-lingual text in Greek and English. Introduction by FinnThrane, Afterword by Aris Marangopoulos. Book