Search Results: Greece 1940-1945 (WW II) from KALAMOS BOOKS

London: Heinemann, 1958 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. The author's experiences in the Aegean islands during World war II, especially his encounters with "Achilles" a guerilla leader on the island of Samos.[ John Lincoln was the pseudonym of Maurice Cardiff who worked at the British Council in Athens.] 256p. maps on end papers.

Athens: Lycabettus Press, 1983 Book. Illus. by Tr. Nikos Stavroulakis. New. Hardcover. 1st Greek Ed.. Moving personal testimony of the way the Jews were deported from Greece to concentration camps during the Nazi occupation. Errikos Sevillias was born in Athens in 1901 into a Sephardic family. He learned how to work in leather as a child and opened his own leather workshop when he was 16. From 1919 until 1923 he served in the Greek army, for three years fighting in Asia Minor. After the war he reopened his workshop, married, and had a daughter. Life, as he writes, "went along well" until he experienced "an inexplicable and unexpected great adventure," meaning Auschwitz. Errikos Sevillias was killed in Athens by a motorcycle in 1974, when he was 73 years old. The manuscript of this book was found among his papers after he died. He describes the appalling events at Auschwitz with extraordinary calm, saying merely that he couldn't understand "what they wanted in doing such… Read More

Thessaloniki: Institute for Balkan Studies, 1976 Book. Fine. Original Wraps. 1st Greek Edition. Diary of important events in Athens from the invasion of Greece by the Italians in October 1940 to the arrival of Nazi German forces in spring 1941. 234p. Crisp copy, paper age toned, else fas new .

Athens: Ekdotika Katastemata "O Kiphesos", 1986 Book. Fine. Soft cover. Revised Edition. A personal account by Greek General Alexander Papagos of his internment in a German Prison Camp [ First published by Ekdoseis "Epikaira", Athens.1945.] 107p, + frontis and 10 pages of photographs [5 copies of this edition f0und in Worldcat].

Ivy Books, 1993-07-05. Paperback. Used:Very Good.

Fredericton: Brunswick Press, 1954 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Can Ed. Describes the activities in Canada of the Greek War Relief Fund established to provide assistance to occupied Greece in WW II, Medical supplies , consignments of food, especially Canadian Wheat, for famine relief, and later aid sent after the earthquakes in 1953. Illustrated with contemporary photographs 193p. plates, tables [Flora Macdonald's later career included becoming a well respected Member of the Canadian Parliament and Minister of Foreign Affairs).

London: Royal Institute of Interational Affairs, 1954 Book. Fine. Cloth. 1st UK Edition. "..a comprehensive account of the country, its people, and its complex history and politics [with] ..special attention to the economic and financial problems which have given rise to Greece's dependence on foreign aid." Part I - Politics: War and Resistance, Liberation and Civil War, From Varkiza Agreement to Truman Doctrine, Guerrilla War 1946-1949, Readjustment, Part II - Economics and Finance: The Liberation and the British, American Aid, Production, The Producers, Trade and Finance, Appendices: The Problem of Cyprus, Greece's Northern Frontiers, Statistical Appendix.vii, 207p. tables. index .maps..

New York: American Friends Of Greece, 1942 Book. Near Fine. Stapled Wraps. First Edition. This book is a record of observations [of the invasion] by Americans recently returned from Greece. Contents: The Greek miracle, by Lincoln MacVeagh.--The need of speed for Greece, by Laird Archer.--In Lesnitza, by Rodney Young.--Greek war relief and the Greek spirit, by Homer Davis.--On the eve of the Nazi invasion, by Arthur Lanckton.--Meeting the test in Thessaloniki, by E.W. Riggs.--Three times "no!" by Ruth Parmelee and Emilie Willms.--The Greek war posters, by S.H. Weber.--I saw Greece looted, by Ralph Kent.--The Greek epos, by Florence A. Stone.--The American bandage circle, by Margaret MacVeagh.--Unbeaten Greece, by Meverette Smith.--What I saw in Greece, by R.W. Gausmann.--Action for Greece, by Leigh White.--A glimpse of the total war effort of the Greeks, by Marjorie C. Davis.--"No other road to freedom," extracts, by Leland Stowe. (Edited by Homer W. Davis.] 96p..

Hanover NH: University Press of New England, 1981 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st US Ed..

Athens: To Vima / Istoria, 2014 Book. Hardc. Decorative Hardcover. Facsimile Reprint. THIS IS A PLACE HOLDER FOR VOLUME 4 from the series "Archeia Genikou Epiteleiou Stratou WHICH HAS GONE MISSING FROM THE SET [Only ONE copy found in WorldCat].

Athens: To Vima / Istoria, 2014 Book. New. Decorative Hardcover. Facsimile Reprint. [Volume 5 in the series "Archeia Genikou Epiteleiou Stratou" originally issued in 1989 by Genikou Epiteleiou Stratou / Army History Directorate/ Lambrakis. 253p. plates [Only ONE copy found in WorldCat].

New York: Macmillan. NY, 1969 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st.US Edition. Memoirs of an influential journalist (New York Times Foreign Service) and his experinces in Europe, the Balkans and Greece. 1061p. plates.index. NOTE Large {23x17x7cm ] haeavy volume.

Hanover: University Press of New England, 1981 Book. New. Soft cover. First Edition.

Pompton Plains: Amadeus Press, 2001 Book. Illus. by Intro.Harewood, George H.. As New. Hardcover. 1st.UK Edition . [ Opera Biography Series No. 14] A Fascinating and very detailed account of the early career of Maria Callas It introduces the Kalogeropoulos family in Greece and the birth of a daughter in the USA in 1923.Mary Kalogeropoulou was taken to Greece in 1937 by her socially ambitious mother and encouraged to develop her remarkable singing voice. Her perseverance in this during the unspeakable conditions of life in Athens during the Nazi occupation A meticulously researched and documented account of her powers of endurance and abilities that resulted in the flowering of a talent that ultimately made Maria Callas "La Divina' of Opera houses around the world. ""The heart of this biography is the young Maria Callas's life in Athens from 1937 to 1943 - a turbulent time that was crucial to her artistic and personal development. In his researches of Athenian archives and… Read More