BRITISH POLICY TOWARDS GREECE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1941-1944 by Procopis Papastratis ( 9780521089371 )

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BRITISH POLICY TOWARDS GREECE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1941-1944

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Procopis Papastratis

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0521089379

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 November, 2008

Series:

LSE Monographs in International Studies

Pages:

284

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This book examines in detail how British policy towards Greece was formulated and implemented from 1941 to 1944.

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This book examines in detail how British policy towards Greece was formulated and implemented from 1941 to 1944. The defeat of Greece and the fall of the dictatorial regime of General Metaxas confronted the British with new problems, the most important being the reconciliation of military and political objectives. The main political objective was to ensure the continuation of Britain's political influence in Greece after the war. This policy would be greatly facilitated by the restoration of King George, a firm advocate of the British connection, though the King's popularity in Greece had been seriously eroded by his close association with the Metaxas dictatorship in the years before the war. However, a policy of support for the King ran counter to the support offered by the War Office and SOE to the National Liberation Front (EAM), a communist-dominated left-wing organization and by far the strongest resistance movement in Greece.

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