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Author Shrader, Charles R.

Title The withered vine : logistics and the communist insurgency in Greece, 1945-1949 / Charles R. Shrader
Published Westport, CT : Praeger, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 317 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Chronology: Greece, 1939-1949 -- Ch. 1. Setting the Stage -- Ch. 2. The Greek Resistance Movement, 1941-1945 -- Ch. 3. Internal Conflict in the Greek Communist Party, 1945-1949 -- Ch. 4. The Development of the Greek Democratic Army -- Ch. 5. The Greek Democratic Army: Manpower and Logistics -- Ch. 6. The Greek Democratic Army: External Support -- Ch. 7. The Greek Democratic Army: Strategy, Tactics, and Operations -- Ch. 8. Logistics and the Failure of the Insurrection in Greece -- App. A. Greek Democratic Army Order of Battle -- App. B. Organizational Diagrams -- GDA Units -- App. C. Common Map Symbols
Summary Aiming to explain the failure of the Communist insurgency in Greece, this text studies the fate of an armed revolutionary movement which lacks adequate manpower and logistical resources, and is divided on such basic matters as foreign policy and the employment of its military capabilities
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-300) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Logistics -- Greece
Communists -- Greece -- Influence
HISTORY.
War -- Underground movements
Logistics
SUBJECT Greece -- History -- Civil War, 1944-1949. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057104
Subject Greece
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0275965449
9780275965440
9780313028564
0313028567