Big Three Allies and the European Resistance - Intelligence, Politics, and the Origins of the Cold War, 1939-1945

The first comparative and pan-European study of the Big Three's involvement in Resistance movements across wartime Europe. From Yugoslavia to Poland and from Greece to France and Italy, the book vividly depicts and sharply analyses how this proxy war shaped the history of the post-war settlement.

List of contents

• PART 1


• 1: Resistance and diplomacy in occupied Europe (September 1939-June 1940)


• 2: The Special Operations Executive at war (July 1940 - June 1941)


• 3: The communists enter the scene (June 1941 - November 1941)


• PART 2


• 4: Uncertain times (December 1941 - December 1942)


• 5: The militarization of British policy and the beginning Of US challenge in the Mediterranean (January - December 1943)


• 6: The communist movement on the offensive (January - December 1943)


• PART 3


• 7: Civil war and liberation in the Balkans (1944-1945)


• 8: Central and Eastern Europe between liberation and Soviet occupation (1944-1945)


• 9: The liberation of Western Europe (1944-1945)


• 10: Conclusion

About the author

Tommaso Piffer is an Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Udine, in Italy. Previously, he was a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Cambridge and Harvard University, a post-doctoral fellow at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, and the Bodossakis Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

Summary

The first comparative and pan-European study of the Big Three's involvement in Resistance movements across wartime Europe. From Yugoslavia to Poland and from Greece to France and Italy, the book vividly depicts and sharply analyses how this proxy war shaped the history of the post-war settlement.

Product details

• Authors: Tommaso Piffer, Tommaso (Associate Professor of Contempora Piffer
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.01.2024
• EAN: 9780198826347
• ISBN: 978-0-19-882634-7
• No. of pages: 292
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Europe, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), The Cold War, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater