This title won the 1994 Longman/"History Today" Prize. It was also the joint winner of the 1993 Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History.
Mark Mazower is professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London, and author of Dark Continent.
"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, The Times
"[An] important book . . . sharply focused."—C.M. Woodhouse,
Times Literary Supplement
"Mark Mazower's account of the Italo-German seizure of Greece . . .
should make sense to anyone with a feel for truthful documentation.
. . . An objective study."—Nigel Spivey, Financial Times
"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, The Times
"This is the first thorough account in English of almost every
aspect of life in Axis-occupied Greece. It draws on a mass of
material, including Greek wartime newspapers and German military
archives. All of this is absorbed into a highly readable narrative
and illustrated with sometimes heartbreaking contemporary
photographs."—Noel Malcolm, The Sunday Telegraph
"Scholarly in its use of sources, yet rich in feeling and full of
vivid descriptions. The account of tens of thousands of people
starving to death is harrowing and appalling; the civil
insurrection which followed and the ensuing acts of brutality on
both sides are presented with equal pathos."—Max Davidson, Daily
Telegraph
"[A] notable study . . . the first of its kind in
English."—Publishers Weekly
"[Mazower's] elegant prose and meticulous eye for detail cut to the
heart of the nature and effects of the occupation on Greek society
and political life. . . . With its rich historical detail, vivid
accounts, its sheer scope and perceptiveness, it is a must for the
professional historian, and an eye-opener for the interested
general reader."—Spyros Economides, The European
"One is glad to have [this book]. Mazower writes without fuss and
takes analysis easily in the stride of his narrative."—Colin
Richmond, Jane's Intelligence Review
"A vivid and penetrating insight into the political and military
confusion of the period. . . . [Mazower's] understanding and grasp
of this often contentious area of history has been well served by
the fluency with which he relates it. It is a very well-written,
readable and often moving book."—Imogen Grundon, Literary
Review
"[A] sensitive, illuminating and richly textured account of
painful, complex experience."—Richard Overy, The Observer
"A stupendous feat of personal and original research. . . . He has
digested this heterogeneous material so thoroughly that his book is
eminently readable. . . . A masterpiece of exposition."—N. G. L.
Hammond, Anglo-Hellenic Review
"Mazower's book is a stupendous achievement and a work of
immaculate scholarship."—History Today
"The book's focus on the experiences of everyday life in extreme
circumstances gives it an immediacy and emotional impact that few
readers will be able to ignore to forget. Mazower wears his
scholarship lightly and writes without jargon, with detachment and
yet with passion; readers will find themselves responding
similarly."—Margaret E. Kenna, Ethnic & Racial Studies
"Mazower's work is to be highly commended. . . . This is a book
which deserves the widest readership possible."—Martyn Housden,
British Journal of Holocaust Education
"A book of great interest and originality. . . . Altogether this
volume provides us with a refreshing exercise in revisionist
history."—M.R.D. Foot, Slavonic Review
Joint Winner of the 1993 Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History
"One of the very best books in any language, to have been written
on wartime Greece. Indeed . . . one of the most significant books
to have been written on modern Greece as a whole."—Richard
Clogg
"Mark Mazower's compelling and scholarly account of the occupation
of Greece by the axis is doubly invaluable . . . Dr. Mazower's
study of occupied Greece is based on an impressive range of
archival and secondary sources in several languages. It is not only
both comprehensive and readable but also topical."—Tim Kirk
"Mazower's crisp, dramatic presentation of all aspects of life in
occupied Greece is a model of clarity and compactness. The politics
of occupation, collaboration, resistance, and plain survival are
elaborated in vivid detail. There is a brightness of vision in this
work, which is as unyielding and unsentimental as the craggy beauty
of Greece."—Ivo Banac
Drawing on eyewitness accounts and previously untapped archives, Mazower's notable study offers a detailed chronicle of the German occupation of Greece and the rise of the resistance movement. He traces the rapid growth of the National Liberation Front/People's Liberation Army after communist activists created an organization that harnessed the anti-Axis sentiment of the populace at large, and describes the bloody reprisal campaigns launched by the Wehrmacht against the guerrillas in the mountains. Mazower also presents a documented account of the fate of Greek Jewry between 1941 and 1944, the first of its kind in English. He covers the bitter fighting between British and Greek forces after the October 12, 1944, liberation of Athens and the internecine clashes that led to civil war. Finally, he reveals new details of the systematic oppression of the Greek Left after the liberation. As late as the 1960s, Greece's prisons were crowded with men and women whose only crime was to have fought against the Germans. Mazower teaches international relations and modern history at the University of Sussex in England. Photos. (Nov.)
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