Synopses & Reviews
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 German, Italian and Bulgarian occupation and the ensuing civil war in the 1940s. The written contributions are supported by a selection of remarkable photographs of the effects of the famine in Greece, many of which have not been published before.
Synopsis
This book focuses on the work of the relief agencies involved in wartime famine and humanitarian aid in Greece during its occupation and civil war in the 1940s.
About the Author
RICHARD CLOGG is a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford. He previously taught at the universities in Edinburgh and London. He has written and edited a number of books including Greece 1940-1949: Occupation, Resistance, Civil War and This Concise History of Greece (second edition 2000) which has been translated into several languages, including Turkish, Japanese and Serbian.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations * Acknowledgement * 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 Famine in Axis-Occupied Greece--A.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 Zannas and The Greek Red Cross--A.Zannas * Ethniki Allilengyi (National Solidarity): Resistance and Welfare--R.Katsiaounis * The Orthodox Church and Social Welfare in Greece in the 1940s--V.Makrides * Quakers and Greeks in the 1940s--M.J.Clogg * The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's Relief Efforts in Post-war Greece: Political Impartiality versus Military Exigencies--F.Tsilaga * The Yugoslav Red Cross and the Greek Civil War--M.Ristovic * Index