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  • Partisan Warfare in Greece 1941?44

    Partisan Warfare in Greece 1941?44 by Athanassiou, Phoebus;

    Series: Men-at-Arms;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Osprey Publishing
    • Date of Publication 22 May 2025
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781472867520
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages pages
    • Size 246x182x6 mm
    • Weight 160 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 8 colour artwork plates; black & white photographs and illustrations.
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    Long description:

    This fully illustrated study examines the German, Italian and Bulgarian occupation forces in Greece during 1941-44 as well as those of the two Greek Resistance organizations.

    Italy's failed invasion of Greece in 1940-41 led to the German invasion of Yugoslavia in spring 1941 being extended into Greece, and, after the fall of Athens and Crete in April and May, the division of the country under German, Italian and Bulgarian occupation. The royal government and Army survivors withdrew to British-ruled Egypt, but at home resistance organizations of differing political character soon sprang up, forming guerrilla forces that exploited Greece's rugged terrain and limited communications.

    The strongest resistance force was the Communist-dominated National Liberation Front (EAM) with its partisan Greek Popular Army (ELAS). Agents of the Western Allied powers had only brief success in mediating cooperation between the mutually hostile EAM/ELAS, and the National Republican Greek League (EDES) with its EOEA. Foreshadowing the Greek Civil War that would follow liberation, ELAS and EOEA clashed, in the background to their separate operations against the Axis occupiers.

    Drawing upon a wide range of sources, Phoebus Athanassiou charts the development of the fighting in occupied Greece: a struggle as ferocious as that fought in neighbouring Yugoslavia, which cost both the resistance and the Axis forces some 15,000 men killed.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction
    Greece's traditions of irregular warfare
    Resistance in Greece
    Chronology
    ELAS: The pan-Hellenic resistance army: Command structure - Organization and recruitment - Weapons and personal equipment - ELAS naval forces
    EDES: the junior resistance army: Organization and command structure - Recruitment base - Weapons and personal equipment
    Guerrilla training, tactics and operations
    German occupation forces in Greece: Organization and occupation record - Anti-partisan tactics and operations
    Italian occupation forces
    Bulgarian occupation forces
    Collaborationist forces
    The reckoning
    Further reading
    Plate commentaries
    Index

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