This is an exploration of the impact of the Axis occupation (1941-44) and the Greek Civil War (1946-49) on Greek West Macedonia's multilingual and deeply fragmented population. The author describes how the political situation in that mountainous region was enormously complicated, being defined by occupying forces, their "collaborators", and resistance organizations. Guerrilla activity and the attendant harsh reprisals brought great suffering to the peasants as a result of the growing ferocity of the occupiers. The fight against the occupying forces and the need to build and maintain as formidable a guerrilla army as possible obliged the resistance forces to press their units' unwilling recruits and even wage war against resistance forces ideologically opposed to them. The book goes on to examine how the situation became even more tortuous in the years of civil strife after the war, when yesterday's heroes turned rebel against the legitimate government of the country.
- ISBN10 0814747302
- ISBN13 9780814747308
- Publish Date 1 March 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint New York University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 1
- Language English