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

Resumen del libro

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.

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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 "A superb book on the horrors afflicting wartime Greece.

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Mazower has done vast archival research and emerged with a gripping, readable and human account, setting every moment of a tragic period in appropriate context."-Fritz Stern, Foreign Affairs " A sensitive, illuminating and richly textured account of painful, complex experience."-Richard Overy, Observer Mark Mazower is professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London, and author of Dark Continent.

Biografía del autor

Mark Mazower es historiador y escritor. Publica regularmente artículos sobre relaciones internacionales en The Financial Times y es profesor de Historia en la Universidad de Columbia. En Crítica ha publicado El imperio de Hitler (2008, Premio de Historia de Los Ángeles Times), La ciudad de los espíritus: Salónica desde Suleimán el Magnífico hasta la ocupación nazi (2009, Premio Duff Cooper y Premio Runciman) y Lo que no me contaste: Una historia familiar rusa y el camino de regreso a casa (2021).