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All the Cretan sacrifices were prompted by an imperious sense of duty, and some of our helpers, as we remember them, seem like saints. (Patrick Leigh Fermor) This first publication in English of the official British report on the resistance in Crete, during the German occupation (1941-1945) is of obvious importance, based as it is on the individual reports from the field of those British officers sent to Crete with the purpose of encouraging and coordinating its activities initiated by the gallant Cretan people. The views and statements expressed in the report are the mo...

Edward Lear first visited Corfu in 1848 and the island seems to have made a deep impression οn him. At all events, he returned in 1855, after further travels in Greece, Albania, Egypt and elsewhere; and for the next years Corfu was to provide him with the nearest he got to at least a winter base until he finally settled at San Remo in 1870. Lear's Corfu years coincide with the last years of the British Protectorate (the Ionian Islands were ceded to Greece in 1864 ); and his letters and journals written οn Corfu, from which the text of this book is composed, form a commentar...

Robert McDonald's book is a comprehensive survey of efforts in the Greek public and private sectors to modernise. It records the country's legislative efforts to harmonise business, labour and education practices with the rest of the European Union and keep up with the globalised marketplace. It draws on interviews with lawmakers, the executive and businesspeople to interpret the effectiveness of those efforts. The survey is broken down into the following chapters: · Economic environment · International rankings · Economic policy · Investment promotion · A...

Τhis Comparative history of Spain and England is a unique synthesis of interdisciplinary fields -including Political Science, Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology and the Philosophy of Law. The author's fascinating account of the 16th century Wars of the Communities in Spain (1520-1522) is contrasted with the historical experience of 14th to 17th century England. The Spanish local communities were characteristic of Castille -with their deeply rooted traditions and communal ethic against unjust centralized power. On the contrary, in England, the all-powerful British Monarchy...

A study of the origins, course and end of the Cold War, focusing upon its causes and nature. Contents include: -Dominance and Dependency -The Roots of the Cold War -The Cold War (1945-53) -The German Problem -Eastern Europe (1945-50) -The Korean War -The Thaw (1953-55) -The Cold War (1956-63) -Cuba and the Cuban Missile Crisis -The Vietnam Wars -The Junta of the Greek Colonels -Eastern Europe (1979-85) -Chile -Detente -The Afghan War -The Cold War (1979-85) -Central America -China and the Cold War -The End of the Cold War -The Interpretation of the Co...

Published in conjunction with the exhibition "The City Beneath the City", organized by the Greek Ministry of Culture and the N.P. Goulandris Foundation and held at the Museam of Cycladic Art, Athens, 29 February 2000-31 December 2001. "[...] Important parts of ancient Athens were investigated during the excavations, conducted for the most part on the sites of Stations and Ventilation Shafts for the Railway. More than 30,00 moveable objects were brought to light. Following a necessarily strict process of selection, the Managing Committee chose about 500 objects for inclus...

At the southeast foot of Mt. Olympus, set on a hill beside the sea and dominating the shortest route between Macedonia and Thessaly, there rises the castle of Platamonas, that is, the walled medieval settlement of Platamonas. The castle, one of the most beautiful and best preserved in Greece, "moves us with its silent presence, connecting specialists with the past, but giving each of us the message of its essential nothingness and future desertion", as the most important student of its history, the late Apostolos Vacalopoulos, notes. It was inevitable that the position of...

This book is one of the fruits of cooperation, which has become official in the course of nearly fifteen years, between the Institute for Byzantine Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation (IBE/EIE), and the Institute for Byzantine Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU). In the past few years, this cooperation has been developed through a joint project, dealing with the last century of Byzantine and Serbian medieval history. However, now, within the scope of this cooperation, a monograph has appeared for the first time, which represents a jo...