Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-44 - Softcover

Mazower, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300089236 ISBN 13: 9780300089233

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2001

Synopsis

This gripping and richly illustrated account of wartime Greece explores the impact of the Nazi Occupation upon the lives and values of ordinary people. The first full account of the experience of occupation, it offers a vividly human picture of resistance fighters and black marketeers, teenage German conscripts and Gestapo officers, Jews and starving villagers.

"Fascinating. . . . [Mazower] succeeds in getting under the skin of the occupation. . . . [This book] conjures up, in vivid detail, life under an occupation that had shattered old certainties and replaced them with painful choices, cynical compromises, and hopes undercut by the daily death toll." —Mark Almond, New York Times

"A vivid picture of the German occupier’s mind and actions. . . . Mazower’s arguments are always fair." —Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review

"A superb book on the horrors afflicting wartime Greece. . . . [Mazower] has done vast archival research and emerged with a gripping, readable and human account, setting every moment of a tragic period in appropriate context." —Fritz Stern, Foreign Affairs

"[A] sensitive, illuminating and richly textured account of painful, complex experience." —Richard Overy, Observer
Mark Mazower is professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London, and author of Dark Continent.

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About the Author

Mark Mazower is professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London, and author of Dark Continent.

From the Back Cover

This book is the first full exploration of the experience of occupation- from the perspective of those that endured it and from those that imposed it -it tells the stories of resistance fighters and black marketeers, teenage German conscripts and Gestapo officers, Jews and starving villagers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300089236
• ISBN 13: 9780300089233
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 462