Format:
1 Online-Ressource (664 pages)
ISBN:
9789004254596
Series Statement:
History of warfare v. 92
Content:
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1. Axis Ambitions in Europe and Greece 1933-1940 -- 2. The Italo-Greek War, the Powers and the Balkans -- 3. Albania, the Bulgarian Frontier and Greek Defensive Schemes -- 4. The Die is Cast -- 5. The Gathering Storm -- 6. Opening Moves (6-7 April) -- 7. The Fall of Northeastern Greece (8-9 April) -- 8. New Battle Lines (10-12 April) -- 9. The Battle of Vevi (12-13 April) -- 10. Pressure on the Passes (14-15 April) -- 11. Allied Withdrawal Planning and Operations (15-16 April) -- 12. The Battle of Pinios Gorge (17-18 April) -- 13. Across the Plains of Thessaly (17-18 April) -- 14. The End in Epirus (19-21 April) -- 15. Brallos and the Thermopylae Pass (22-24 April) -- 16. Corinth and the Peloponnese (25-26 April) -- 17. The Final Evacuations (27-28 April) -- 18. The Outcome Explained -- 19. Justifications, Vindications and Unnecessary Debates -- 20. Marita and Barbarossa -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004254572
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Stockings, Craig A. J., author Swastika over the Acropolis Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004254596
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