Book "Memories of a Mountain War: Greece 1944-1949" by Kenneth Matthews - Names, Photographs, Description, Contents

The book "Memories of a Mountain War - Greece 1944-1949" by Kenneth Matthews was published in 1972 by Longman Group Limited London.


Below you will find:
Names Mentioned in this Book
List of Photographs
Description from Dust Jacket
Table of Contents


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NAMES MENTIONED IN BOOK


Benekou, Athena


Georgiades (Professor)


Chiouzelis ('General Stephanos')


Gonatas (General)


Kanellopoulos, Panayiotes


Markos, (General) - Markos Vaphiades


Pangalos (General)


Papadhaki, Helene


Papandreou, George


Pappas (General)


Petzopoulos (General)


Plastiras, Nicholas (General)


Psarros (General)


Rallis, John


Sarriyiannis ('Lieutenant-Colonel')


Sepheres, George


Stachtopoulos, Gregorios


Stephanos (General)


Svolos, Alexandros


Vaphiades, Markos


Zervas (Colonel)


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LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS


The guerrilla chieftain Ares with Fifteen-year-old guerrilla


Athens:  Syntagma Square floodlit for liberation, October 1944


Battle of Athens:  British paratrooper on guard on Acropolis


British tank in action in Euripides Street, Athens


Night fires in Athens after street fighting


Civilians run for cover in bombarded Athens street


Ralles in court:  the 'quisling' prime minister on trial for treason


Saraphes, the guerrillas' military commander


Christmas Day 1944:  the conference by Hurricane lamps.  Churchill flanked by Eden and Archbishop Damaskinos, Alexander and Macmillan at far right of picture


Treaty of Varkiza:  Scobie signs for Britain


Treaty of Varkiza:  Siantos signs for Communists


After the exhumation:  a Communist execution ground


Delphi:  view from stadium over temple of Apollo


After a rebel raid:  Goumenitsa, Macedonia


Government troops on patrol:  Karpenisi, Central Greece


Mules go to market in convoy for protection against rebel attack


Army checking identity cards at entrance to mountain village


Rebel prisoners at Drama


Women in gaol at Drama, accused of 'helping the enemy'


Government troops bivouacked on northern frontier


Wire cages at mass trial of rebels at Salonika, 1948


Mountain warfare:  a defensive position outside a village in Central Greece


Gorgopotamos viaduct after reconstruction


'Ask our men to take you back . . . ;  Black George's second radio telegram


Black George, pictured behind rebel lines


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FROM DUST JACKET


"Kenneth Matthews is uniquely equipped to chronicle the Greek civil war.  When he was assigned to cover the war as correspondent for the BBC, he was already well acquainted with the country, its people and language.  Memories of a Mountain War is history at first hand, a brilliant eye-witness account which corrects mistakes and omissions in the existing histories.  It is also a record of an exciting personal adventure:  Kenneth Matthews was kidnapped under the Lion Gate at Mycenae and forced to march night and day across the mountains to guerrilla headquarters in the Peloponnese.  The sequence of events from 1944 to 1949 is here set out in full perspective, though the author sees history not so much in terms of political and military manoeuvres as an amalgam of the experiences of individual men and women; their stories, extraordinary as some of them are, light up the narrative with the colours of everyday life."


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TABLE OF CONTENTS


Historical Note
On Greeks and Bandits


I.  THE FIRST REBELLION
The Liberators
The False Dawn
A Case of Terrorists Terrorized
The "Jeunes Filles en Fleur'
A Mutiny and its Consequences
The Battle of Athens
The Other Face of Revolution
Illusions of Peace


2.  THE SECOND REBELLION
'Why then did it happen?'
The UN Image and its Feet of Clay
The Accelerating War
The Shepherdess's Tale
A Revolutionary at Dinner
On the Symbolism of Trains
The Winter of the Paedomasm
Murder in Salonika Bay
'Those who had bruised the camomile . . . '
Intimations of Victory


3.  PRISONER OF THE REBELS
Kidnapped
The Long Walk
'Ask our men to take you back'


Epilogue
Index