Author: Matthews, Kenneth
Title: Memories of a Mountain War : Greece 1944-1949
Description: London, Longman, (1972). orig.boards, dustwrapper. 284,(14) pp,, 22x14cm, In a rubbed, soiled, chipped & torn dustwrapper.. 2 maps; 12pp photoplates. Minor rubbing.Some page-edge soil. Light binding corner bump.VG. ¶ The BBC Correspondent's memoirs of the Greek civil war. Contents: Historical Note: On Greeks & Bandits; The First Rebellion: The Liberators; The False Dawn; A Case of Terrorists Terrorized; The 'Jeunes Filles en Fleur'; A Mutiny & Its Consequences; The Battle of Athens; The Other Face of Revolution; Illusions of Peace; The Second Rebellion: 'Why Then Did It Happen?'; The UN Image & Its Feet of Clay; The Accelerating War; The Shepherdess'sTale; A Revolutionary at Dinner; On the Symbolism of Trains; The Winter of Paedomasm; Murder in Salonika Bay; 'Those Who had Bruised the Camomile...'; Intimations of Victory; Prisoner of the Rebels: Kidnapped; The Long Walk; 'Ask Our Men To Take You Back'; Epilogue.

Keywords: Modern Greece, Modern Greece, Communist Party, Communism, Guerrilla Warfare, Military History, Political Politics, Greek Civil War,