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

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pp. 437, “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”

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ISBN 0300058047
ISBN13 9780300058048
Original Title Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-44
Published Date 1994
Book Condition Very Good
Jacket Condition Vewry Good
Binding Hardcover
Size 8vo
Place of Publication New Haven
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pp. 437, “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”

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Weight 1 kg