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Swastika over the Acropolis: Re-interpreting the Nazi Invasion of Greece in World War II

By Craig Stockings , Eleanor Hancock

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2013
ISBN
9004254579, 9789004254572
ISSN
1385-7827
Google Books ID
JeYTAAAAQBAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11108416 bytes)
Series
History of Warfare 92
Pages
xviii+646\665
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2015-01-02 21:06:07

Description

Swastika over the Acropolis is a new, multi-national account which provides a new and compelling interpretation of the Greek campaign of 1941, and its place in the history of World War II. It overturns many previously accepted English-language assumptions about the fighting in Greece in April 1941 – including, for example, the impact usually ascribed to the Luftwaffe, German armour and the conduct of the Greek Army Further, Swastika over the Acropolis demonstrates that this last complete strategic victory by Nazi Germany in World War II is set against a British-Dominion campaign mounted as a withdrawal, not an attempt to ‘save’ Greece from invasion and occupation. At the same time, on the German side, the campaign revealed serious and systemic weaknesses in the planning and the conduct of large-scale operations that would play a significant role in the regime’s later defeats.

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