Blood and Tears: Greece 1940-1949: a Story of War and Love

American Hellenic Institute Foundation, 2005

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Details

Year of publication

2005

ISBN

1889247049

Place of printing

Washington

Author

Papavizas, George Constantine

Publishers

American Hellenic Institute Foundation

Keyword

GREEC WORLD WAR II GREEK AMERICANS

Cover description

New

Binding description

Dust jacket

Yes

Binding

Hardcover

Inscribed

First edition

Description

A powerful autobiography set in the turbulent decade of 1940s Greece. Through the eyes of an impressionable and intelligent young man who came of age in a time of world war, foreign occupation, resistance, and civil war, we witness the tragedy and trauma suffered by Greece. While uniquely personal, this is also the story of young Greeks cast unwillingly into the ambivalences and horrors of WWII.The authors descriptions are vivid and convincing. Against a rigorously researched backdrop of the key historical events, we see youthful idealism being forcibly reconciled to the realities of hunger, brutality, dissension, and death. With a keen eye for detail, and reflecting on the mundane as well as the profound, we watch as Greece patriotically fends off foreign invasion and survives years of harsh occupation, but gullibly and disastrously succumbs to the blandishments of utopians.

Edizione: 1st us ed.