Bearing Gifts to Greeks Humanitarian Aid to Greece in the 1940s

by Clogg, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780230500358
• ISBN10: 0230500358
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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'

Famine in Occupied Greece: Causes and Consequences

The Politics of Famine Relief for Occupied Greece

The Greek-American Community and Famine in Axis-Occupied Greece

The Turkish Contribution to Famine Relief in Greece during the Second World War

Inter Arma Caritas: the Swedish Red Cross in Greece in the 1940s

'Ce que j'ai vu dan la Grèce d'aujourd'hui': Alexandros Zannas and The Greek Red Cross

Ethniki Allilengyi (National Solidarity): Resistance and Welfare

The Orthodox Church and Social Welfare in Greece in the 1940s

Quakers and Greeks in the 1940s

The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's Relief Efforts in Post-war Greece: Political Impartiality versus Military Exigencies

The Yugoslav Red Cross and the Greek Civil War

Index

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