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The Improbable Heroine : Lela Karayanni and the British Secret Services in World War II Greece / Stylianos Perrakis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (XIX, 368 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110777437
  • 9783110778540
  • 9783110778403
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DF836.K369 P47 2022
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of acronyms -- 1 Prologue -- 2 The troubled country: Greece in the early twentieth century -- 3 The making of a heroine: Lela Karayanni, 1898–1941 -- 4 The British secret services in Greece at the beginning of the war -- 5 Greece at war: October 1940–May 1941 -- 6 Lela Karayanni, resister and secret agent I: Mana Karayanni -- 7 The Kokkinia escapes -- 8 Disaster in the Aegean -- 9 The smuggler the famine, and the rise of EAM -- Illustrations -- 10 Lela Karayanni, resister and secret agent II: Spies and saboteurs, 1941–1942 -- 11 Thurgoland and Harling -- 12 From Prometheus to Apollo and the Lela connection -- 13 Armed resistance, collaboration, and the politics of Dr. Frankenstein -- 14 Lela Karayanni, Righteous Among Nations -- 15 Apollo wounded -- 16 The Grand Scheme and Lela’s arrest -- 17 The heroic deaths -- 18 Liberation and aftermath -- 19 Epilogue: Lela Karayanni, the armed resistance and the politicization of memory -- Chronology of the main WW II events in Greece -- List of photography sources -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: This is the first biography in English of a World War II heroine of the Greek resistance, who joined the British secret intelligence services (SIS) shortly after the German occupation of Athens and was betrayed, arrested and executed one month before the Germans’ departure. She was a prosperous housewife with seven children, who had no experience in politics or military affairs, and yet she managed to build a formidable escape, espionage and sabotage organization that interacted with the highest levels of SIS agents in Occupied Greece. Book Presentation with Prof. Stylianos Perrakis (Concordia University), Prof. Stathis Kalyvas (University of Oxford), and Prof. Gonda van Steen (King’s College London)
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Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of acronyms -- 1 Prologue -- 2 The troubled country: Greece in the early twentieth century -- 3 The making of a heroine: Lela Karayanni, 1898–1941 -- 4 The British secret services in Greece at the beginning of the war -- 5 Greece at war: October 1940–May 1941 -- 6 Lela Karayanni, resister and secret agent I: Mana Karayanni -- 7 The Kokkinia escapes -- 8 Disaster in the Aegean -- 9 The smuggler the famine, and the rise of EAM -- Illustrations -- 10 Lela Karayanni, resister and secret agent II: Spies and saboteurs, 1941–1942 -- 11 Thurgoland and Harling -- 12 From Prometheus to Apollo and the Lela connection -- 13 Armed resistance, collaboration, and the politics of Dr. Frankenstein -- 14 Lela Karayanni, Righteous Among Nations -- 15 Apollo wounded -- 16 The Grand Scheme and Lela’s arrest -- 17 The heroic deaths -- 18 Liberation and aftermath -- 19 Epilogue: Lela Karayanni, the armed resistance and the politicization of memory -- Chronology of the main WW II events in Greece -- List of photography sources -- Bibliography -- Index

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This is the first biography in English of a World War II heroine of the Greek resistance, who joined the British secret intelligence services (SIS) shortly after the German occupation of Athens and was betrayed, arrested and executed one month before the Germans’ departure. She was a prosperous housewife with seven children, who had no experience in politics or military affairs, and yet she managed to build a formidable escape, espionage and sabotage organization that interacted with the highest levels of SIS agents in Occupied Greece. Book Presentation with Prof. Stylianos Perrakis (Concordia University), Prof. Stathis Kalyvas (University of Oxford), and Prof. Gonda van Steen (King’s College London)

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mai 2023)