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Andrews,Kevin

The Flight of Ikaros : Travels in Greece During a Civil War

Penguin, 1984

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Year of publication
1984
ISBN
0140095314
Place of printing
London
Author
Andrews,Kevin
Publishers
Penguin
Edition
Reprint.
Keyword
GREECE 1945-1950.COMMUNISM. GREEK COMMUNISM CIVIL WAR
Binding description
S
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
Very Good
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

Personal account of the author's experiences in Greece at the end of the Civil War "Somehow Andrews managed to cut through the traditional barriers of hospitality and suspicion. In becomiung god-brother to a shepherd clan, or hearing the terrifying story of Papastavros, the village priest, or in his unlikely friendship with the charming and violent Kostandi, he experienced all the ferocity, warmth, delicacy and impatience of the Greek people whom . he captures alive on the page' 231Pp. First Pub. 1958.