Battle for Bodies, Hearts and Minds in Postwar Greece - Social Worker Charles Schermerhorn in Thessaloniki, 19461951

This book brings this memoir to light to enrich the discussion about the Greek Civil War and the late 1940s, through the highly perceptive views of a firsthand observer of the turmoil.

List of contents

List of Figures and Maps / Foreword / Preface and Acknowledgments / Maps / Introduction / Charley in Greece: 1946 to 1951 / References / Index

About the author

Gonda Van Steen holds the Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language, and Literature in the Department of Classics at King's College London. She is the author of five books: Venom in Verse: Aristophanes in Modern Greece (2000); Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire (2010); Theatre of the Condemned: Classical Tragedy on Greek Prison Islands (2011); and Stage of Emergency: Theater and Public Performance under the Greek Military Dictatorship of 1967-1974 (2015). Her latest book, Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece (2019), takes the reader into the uncharted terrain of Greek adoption stories that become paradigmatic of Cold War politics and history.

Summary

This book brings this memoir to light to enrich the discussion about the Greek Civil War and the late 1940s, through the highly perceptive views of a firsthand observer of the turmoil.

Product details

• Authors: Gonda Van Steen
• Assisted by: Gonda Van Steen (Editor), Van Steen Gonda (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781032281742
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3228174-2
• No. of pages: 266
• Series: Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); European History, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, HISTORY / Social History, military history, Memoirs, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Greece, Social and cultural history, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), The Cold War, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, Civil wars, HISTORY / Europe / Greece, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, HISTORY / Military / Civil Wars