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Author : Anthony Heckstall-Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Greek Tragedy, 1941 written by Anthony Heckstall-Smith and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evacuation of defeated British forces from Greece in 1941.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (488 download)
Download or read book Greek Tragedy written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beskrivelse af "Operation Demon", evakueringen af de allierede tropper fra Grækenland i 1941.
Author : Robin Higham
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813150507
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Diary of a Disaster written by Robin Higham and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 28, 1940, the Italian army under Benito Mussolini invaded Greece. The British had insisted on guaranteeing Greek and Turkish neutrality, despite the fact that Greece was never more than a limited campaign in an unlimited war as far as they were concerned. The British, however, were never quite sure that Greece was not their last foothold in Europe, and they harbored dreams of holding on to this last bastion of civilization and of protecting it with a diplomatic and military alliance -- a Balkan bloc. These dreams bore little relation to military and economic realities, and so the stage was set for tragedy. In Diary of a Disaster, Robin Higham details the unfolding events from the invasion, though the Italian defeat and the subsequent German invasion, until the British evacuation at the end of April 1941. The Greek army, while tough, was small and based largely upon reserves. They were also largely equipped with obsolete French, Polish, and Czech arms for which there was now no other source than captured Italian materiel. Transportation was also lacking as Greece lacked all-weather roads over much of the country, had no all-weather airport, and only one rail line connecting Athens with Salonika and Florina in the north. Added to the woes of the Greek military, the British commander-in-chief for the Middle East, Sir Archibald Wavell, faced huge logistical challenges as well. Based in Cairo, he was responsible for a huge theatre of operation, from hostile Vichy French forces in Syria to the Boers in South Africa nearly six thousand miles away. His air force was comprised of only a handful of modern aircraft with biplanes and outdated, early monoplanes making up the bulk of his force. Radar was also unavailable to him. His navy was woefully short on destroyers and often incommunicado while at sea. While Wavell had roughly 500,000 men under his command, he was severely limited in how he could use them. The South Africans could only be deployed in East Africa and the Austrians and New Zealanders could not be employed without the consent of their home governments. In short, Churchill had instructed Wavell to offer support that he did not really have and could not afford to give to the Greeks. Higham walks readers through these events as they unfold like a modern Greek tragedy. Using the format of a diary, he recounts day-by-day the British efforts though the failure of Operation Lustre, which no one outside of London thought had any chance of stemming the Nazi tide in Greece.
Author : Pateris Tilemahos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Tragedy of the Greek Jews at World War II 1941-1945 written by Pateris Tilemahos and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robin Higham
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813189128
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Diary of a Disaster written by Robin Higham and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 28, 1940, the Italian army under Benito Mussolini invaded Greece. The British had insisted on guaranteeing Greek and Turkish neutrality, despite the fact that Greece was never more than a limited campaign in an unlimited war as far as they were concerned. The British, however, were never quite sure that Greece was not their last foothold in Europe, and they harbored dreams of holding on to this last bastion of civilization and of protecting it with a diplomatic and military alliance—a Balkan bloc. These dreams bore little relation to military and economic realities, and so the stage was set for tragedy. In Diary of a Disaster, Robin Higham details the unfolding events from the invasion, though the Italian defeat and the subsequent German invasion, until the British evacuation at the end of April 1941. The Greek army, while tough, was small and based largely upon reserves. They were also largely equipped with obsolete French, Polish, and Czech arms for which there was now no other source than captured Italian materiel. Transportation was also lacking as Greece lacked all-weather roads over much of the country, had no all-weather airport, and only one rail line connecting Athens with Salonika and Florina in the north. Added to the woes of the Greek military, the British commander-in-chief for the Middle East, Sir Archibald Wavell, faced huge logistical challenges as well. Based in Cairo, he was responsible for a huge theatre of operation, from hostile Vichy French forces in Syria to the Boers in South Africa nearly six thousand miles away. His air force was comprised of only a handful of modern aircraft with biplanes and outdated, early monoplanes making up the bulk of his force. Radar was also unavailable to him. His navy was woefully short on destroyers and often incommunicado while at sea. While Wavell had roughly 500,000 men under his command, he was severely limited in how he could use them. The South Africans could only be deployed in East Africa and the Austrians and New Zealanders could not be employed without the consent of their home governments. In short, Churchill had instructed Wavell to offer support that he did not really have and could not afford to give to the Greeks. Higham walks readers through these events as they unfold like a modern Greek tragedy. Using the format of a diary, he recounts day-by-day the British efforts though the failure of Operation Lustre, which no one outside of London thought had any chance of stemming the Nazi tide in Greece.
Author : Tilemachos Pateris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Never Forget written by Tilemachos Pateris and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Violetta Hionidou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521829321
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Famine and Death in Occupied Greece, 1941-1944 written by Violetta Hionidou and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-06 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a pioneering study of the impact of the famine that occurred in Greece during its occupation by German, Italian and Bulgarian forces in 1941 and 1942. Violetta Hionidou examines the courses and politics of this food crisis, focusing on the demography of the famine and the effectiveness of the relief operations. Her interdisciplinary approach combines demographic, historical and anthropological methodologies to offer a comprehensive account of the famine. This important study makes a major contribution to current debates about mortality and its causes during famines.
Author : Tilemachos Pateris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Never Forget the Tragedy of the Greek Jews at World War II 1941-1945 written by Tilemachos Pateris and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Derwent Thomson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Aeschylus and Athens written by George Derwent Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aeschylus and Athens is far more than a study of the plays of Aeschylus and what they meant to the audience for whom they were written. It is a profound inquiry into the origins and development of Athenian democracy, and as such an inquiry into the roots of western civilisation and culture. For Professor Thomson's contention is that the plays of Aeschylus contain fundamental problems which could never be solved within the accepted limits of either conventional literary criticism or conventional classical scholarship. The Aeschylean drama is so inseparable from the social and political life of Athens that it can only be understood by studying it methodically in its full historical context. Therefore, while the primary object of this book is a better understanding of Aeschylus, it covers a much wider field, including the history of early Greek poetry, the growth of the vital elements in Greek thought, the religious basis of Greek drama, and the relation of all these cultural developements to the transition from primitive tribal society to the Greek city-state. First published in 1941, this was the first attempt to apply to ancient Greek civilisation the principles of historical materialism. Professor Thomson has since continued this work in the two volumes of his Studies in Ancient Greek Society. The new edition of Aeschylus and Athens has been revised throughout by the author. --jacket.
Author : John Tresidder Sheppard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Greek Tragedy written by John Tresidder Sheppard and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nancy Worman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474277810
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Virginia Woolf's Greek Tragedy written by Nancy Worman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Woolf's writings Greece and Greek tragedy in particular shape an exoticized aesthetic space that both emerges from and enables critique of the cosy settings and colonialist conceits of elite (and largely male) British attitudes toward culture and politics. Rather than highlighting Woolf's exclusion from male intellectual purviews, as so many scholars have emphasized, this book urges attention on how her engagements with Greek tragedy both collude with and challenge modernist aesthetics and contemporary politics. Woolf's encounters with and uses of Greek tragedy fantasize an alternative perceptual capacity that correlates to feminine (and feminist) modes, which are depicted in her writings as alternately defiant and choral. In this scheme, Greek tragedy is something of a dreamland, the mysterious dynamics of which Woolf treats as transcending cultural attitudes that hinge upon imperialist adventuring and violence. As scholars have recognized, especially in recent decades, the exoticizing gestures central to the work of so many modernists have uncomfortable political underpinnings, since they frequently inhabit imperialist and colonialist perspectives while appearing to critique them. Unlike most scholars, Nancy Worman argues that Woolf is no exception, although the feminism and humour that inflects so many "Greek" elements in her work saves it from the worst offenses.
Author : Gilbert Norwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Greek Tragedy written by Gilbert Norwood and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gioula Koutsopanagou
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 1137551550
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book The British Press and the Greek Crisis, 1943–1949 written by Gioula Koutsopanagou and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first detailed analysis of how interactions between government policy and Fleet Street affected the political coverage of the Greek civil war, one of the first major confrontations of the Cold War. During this period the exponential growth of media influence was an immensely potent weapon of psychological warfare. Throughout the 1940s the press maintained its position as the most powerful medium and its influence remained unchallenged. The documentary record shows that a British media consensus was more fabricated than spontaneous, and the tools of media persuasion and manipulation were extremely important in building acceptance for British foreign policy. Gioula Koutsopanagou examines how this media consensus was influenced and molded by the British government and how Foreign Office channels were key to molding public attitudes to British foreign policy. These channels included system of briefings given by the News Department to the diplomatic correspondents, and the contacts between embassies and the British foreign correspondents.
Author : Alexandros Papagos
Publisher : Athens : Scazikis "Alpha" Editions
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Battle of Greece, 1940-1941 written by Alexandros Papagos and published by Athens : Scazikis "Alpha" Editions. This book was released on 1949 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stuart Lawrence
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0199659761
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Moral Awareness in Greek Tragedy written by Stuart Lawrence and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawrence's volume provides a detailed discussion and analyses of the moral awareness of major characters in Greek tragedy, focusing particularly on the characters' recognition of moral issues and crises, their ability to reflect on them, and their consciousness of doing so. Beginning with a definition of morality and examining the implications of analysing the moral performance of fictional characters, Lawrence considers concepts of the self and the problem of autonomy and personal responsibility in the context of divine intervention, which is a crucial feature of the genre. The volume then moves on to the individual plays (Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes and Oresteia; Sophocles' Ajax, Trachiniae, Oedipus Tyrannus, Electra, and Philoctetes; and Euripides' Medea, Hecuba, Hippolytus, Heracles, Electra, and Bacchae), focusing in each case on a crisis or crises faced by a major character and examining the background which led to it. Lawrence then considers the individual character's moral response and relates it to the critical issues formulated in the volume's opening discussions. The book will be important to any student of Classical Studies and those in Philosophy or Literature interested in a theoretical discussion of the morality of literary characters.
Author : Michael Simpson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000159116
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A Life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham written by Michael Simpson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an account of the life of naval commander Andrew Cunningham, the best-known and most celebrated British admiral of the Second World War. It supplements Cunningham's papers by Cabinet and Admiralty records, papers of his service contemporaries and of Churchill.
Author : GILBERT. NORWOOD
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781032955223
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (552 download)
Download or read book Greek Tragedy written by GILBERT. NORWOOD and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2024-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek Tragedy (1928) is an attempt to cover the whole field of Greek tragedy. It provides facts and importantly provides a scholarly review of Greek tragedy in the English language. It gives prominence to dramatic structure and the scansion of the lyrics. It follows the working of each playwright's mind, to realise what he meant his work to 'feel like'.
