Bearing Gifts to Greeks: Humanitarian Aid to Greece in the 1940s

by Richard Clogg (Editor)

Overview

'Bearing Gifts to Greeks' focuses on the under-documented work of the relief agencies involved in dealing with wartime famine and humanitarian aid in Greece during the tripartite occupation and the ensuing civil war in the 1940s. A selection of remarkable photographs from the time, many of which have not been published before, support the text.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230500358
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	12/17/2007
Series:	St Antony's Series
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

MARY JO CLOGG is former Librarian of Woodbrooke Quaker Studies Centre, Birmingham, UK VIOLETTA HIONIDOU is a Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK ROLANDOS KATSIAOUNIS is a researcher at the Cyprus Research Centre and at the Political Affairs Division of the Foreign Ministry. He is currently working on a history of the Republic of Cyprus and on a study of the Communist Party of Cyprus - AKEL. GEORGE KAZAMIAS is Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Cyprus, Cyprus ALEXANDROS K. KYROU is Associate Professor of History and the Director of the Program in East European and Russian Studies at Salem State College in Salem, Massachusetts, USA ELÇIN MACAR is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey VASILIOS N. MAKRIDES is Professor of Religious Studies (with reference to Orthodox Christianity) in the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Erfurt, Germany MARIE MAUZY is a Swedish photographer and researcher living in Athens, Greece MILAN RISTOVIC is Professor of Contemporary History in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia. FLORA TSILAGA is at King's College, London. ALEXANDROS P. ZANNAS is an archivist in the Historical Archives Department of the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: 'Bearing Gifts to Greeks'; R.Clogg Famine in Occupied Greece: Causes and Consequences; V.Hionidou The Politics of Famine Relief for Occupied Greece; G.Kazamias The Greek-American Community and the Famine in Axis-Occupied Greece; A.K.Kyrou The Turkish Contribution to Famine Relief in Greece during the Second World War; E.Macar Inter Arma Caritas : the Swedish Red Cross in Greece in the 1940s; M.Mauzy 'Ce que j'ai vu dan la Grèce d'aujourd'hui': Alexandros D. Zannas and The Greek Red Cross; A.P.Zannas Ethniki Allilengyi (National Solidarity): Resistance and Welfare; R.Katsiaounis The Greek Orthodox Church and Social Welfare in Greece during the Second World War; V.Makrides Quakers and Greeks in the 1940s; M.J.Clogg The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's Relief Efforts in Late 1944 Greece: Political Impartiality versus Military Exigencies; F.Tsilaga Helping 'the Good Greeks': Yugoslav Humanitarian Aid to the Greek Leftist Movement 1945-1949; M.Ristovic Index

Editorial Reviews

'Bearing Gifts to Greeks fills a gap in the history of the war in Greece, and stands well alongside the better trodden paths of political and military history of the occupation, the resistance, and the Allied Military Mission. It is a story of misery and inhumanity, but also of inspiring human action and hope.' - The Anglo-Hellenic Review

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