The Greek Civil War
Subtitle: Essays on a Conflict of Exceptionalism and Silences (Publications (King's College (University of London).  Centre for Hellenic Studies), 6.)
Contributors: David Close (Contributor); Martin Conway (Contributor); Basil C. Gounaris (Contributor); Athanasios Lykogiannis (Contributor); Vasilios N. Makrides (Contributor); Nicolas Manitakis (Contributor); Philip B. Minehan (Contributor); Philip Carabott (Editor); Thanasis D. Sfikas (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: June 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780754641315
Subjects: European history: from c 1900 -; Greece; Civil War, 1944-1949; History - General History; History; Europe - Greece; History: World; Europe; World - General
First sentence: 'Blood brings blood and more blood': so said the future poet-laureate Yiorgos Seferis, soon to become director of the political bureau of Regent Damaskinos, in a somewhat cryptic January 1945 postscript to an earlier poem of his; a seemingly resigned outlook conditioned upon his perception of the Dekemvriana, that landmark in the evolution of postwar Greece, as a hideous spectacle of 'buffoons'.