ISBN: 9781571813091    Publisher: Berghahn Books Year of publishing: 2002     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: n/a        

Focusing on the Greek Civil War (1946-1949), the last major conflict in Europe before the end of the Cold War, this study examines the political prisoners whose fate encapsulates the dramatic conflicts and contradictions of that dark era. Based on new sources such as prisoners' letters, memoirs, and official reports, the author describes the life of the prisoners and the effect the prison adminsitration and the prisoners' collective had on their personality. Drawing comparisons to political prisoners in Germany and Spain, the author sheds new light on our understanding of the ideologies and policies and their effect on individuals, which marked European history in the 20th century.
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Polymeris Voglis currently teaches at New York University. He was previously a Visiting Fellow at Columbia University and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Princeton University.
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