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Plundered Loyalties: World War II and Civil War in Greek West Macedonia

1 review
John S. Koliopoulos

NYU Press, 1999

What Leaders Forget
This book is excellent in presenting the chameleon-like "nationalism" the peoples of North-Western Greece engaged in pre- and post-WWII. Survival was paramount and taking sides was the name of the game - politics and nationalism was the vehicle, not the end goal. Also worthwhile is the presentation of the full gamut of "ethnicities" that were (and can still be found) in the area - even though ...

King Zog and the Struggle for Stability in Albania (East European Monographs)

3 reviews
Bernd J. Fischer

East European Monographs, 1984

King Zog
As a collector of Albanian coins, and specifically King Zog era Albanian coins, I found the book absolutely fascinating. A wee bit academic in it's approach, and lacking illustrations, it is still a MUST read book for anyone interested in the Zog period of Albanian history. If you are familliar with Egyptian history of the King Farouk period, you will see many similarities in their reign. Both ...

Asmahan's Secrets : Woman, War, and Song (Middle East Monograph Series, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, ...

2 reviews
Sherifa Zuhur

Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, 2001

I m not convinced Asmahan was allied agent in WWII
The Hassaniens and el Badrawis were wealthy families with serious interest in art. Their houses outside Cairo were meeting points for many musicians as well as politicians (Egyptian politicians). Amal el Atrash (Asmahan) met people, both here and at other stops in Egypt and the Lebanon. Jussuf Wehbe (Beik) is Egypt's born Theatre Stage Star for whom the best Egyptian authors wrote his first ...

Albania in the Twentieth Century, A History: Volume I: Albania and King Zog, 1908-39 (Albania in the ...

1 review
Owen Pearson

I. B. Tauris, 2005

A genuine masterpiece of Albanian history in English!
This is no doubt the first concise and complete history of the modern Albanian state ever published in English. The book's structure is in chronological order of events following the years of independence to the consolidation of the Albania state and Albanian Monarchy. Mr. Pearson gives a realistic and vivid depiction of Albanian political personalities of the time and the overall political ...

No Greater Sacrifice, No Greater Love: A Son's Journey to Normandy

8 reviews
Carter Wf, Walter Ford Carter, ...

Smithsonian, 2004

The Eternal Sadness of the burdened heart
Military history focuses on battles and campaigns in linear time stopping and starting around the time of the war. WW2 Memoirs cover in greater detail the lives of the particpants usually before and during the war but usually stop there or only give a brief postscript. This work is unusual because the author tells you up front the basic story and then unfolds it from there. The knowledge of ...

Collected Poems, 1912-1944 (H.D.)

3 reviews
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1986

H.D.: The Essential Imagist
For lovers of modernist literature, this tome is a must. Including her first published book and covering the period until (and through) her astounding achievement in her war Trilogy, the Collected Poems allows a reader to fully get to know H.D. in all her many moods. Also including poetry from the period in which she was undergoing psychoanalysis with Freud, the poems give a full picture of ...

Letters and Dispatches 1924-1944

1 review
Raoul Wallenberg

Arcade Publishing, 1995

A Righteous Gentile - A Righteous Read
The Letters and Dispatches of Raoul Wallenberg provide a glimpse of a man who paid, somewhere and somehow in the Soviet Union, the ultimate price for his efforts to bring others to safety. While much is now debated about the benefits of neutrality to Sweden during the Holocaust, what cannot be debated is the intentionality of this man to provide Hungarian Jews a safe haven in Sweden, saving them ...

Albania: A European Enigma (East European Monographs)
Nicholas J. Costa

East European Monographs, 1995

This clearly written, thought-provoking study of the land and people of Albania is rich in the texture of events determining the journey to nationhood of a European Third World country. Costa uses an abundance of personal interviews, diary entries, and not yet published primary documents in this objective interdisciplinary study of the interplay of the forces of nationalism and ideology upon a nation's political evolution and orientation in its ...

Shattered Illusions

2 reviews
Nicholas Costa

East European Monographs, 1998

Illusions put together in fabulous articulation
This is a great book about the communist and the other factors that have driven the government in the baltic region. I was glued to the pages as if in a trance. I found the book thought provoking and challenging. I think that the other person who left a review should be dragged out onto the streets and shot. There are no words to describe the detail and thought that this book provides. If ...

An Englishman in Albania: Memoirs of a British Officer 1929-1955
D. R. Oakley-Hill

I. B. Tauris, 2005

This book tells of the hold that Albania and its people came to exercise over one Englishman. Colonel Dayrell Oakley-Hill's memoirs provide a vivid description of the landscape, people and customs of this beautiful country and the two very different leaders that he came to know well--King Zog and Enver Hoxha. Oakley-Hill returned to the UK in 1955, but never severed his connections with Albania. Right up to his death in 1985 he was tireless in ...

Damian Parer: Cameraman
Niall Brennan

Melbourne University, 1994

During World War II Damien Parer became Australia's best-known war photographer, his many cinema documentaries of the war (for Cinesound News) eventually winning Australia's first 'Oscar'. He was on more front lines and probably saw more close-up action than any serving soldier. He became immensely popular, not only with the cinema public but with the serving soldiers and airmen: his unique personality endeared him to great numbers of serving ...

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