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The ghosts of Plaka Beach : a true story of murder and retribution in wartime Greece
- Title
- The ghosts of Plaka Beach : a true story of murder and retribution in wartime Greece / Stylianos (Stelios) Perrakis.
- Author
- Perrakis, Stylianos, 1938-
- Publication
- Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2006], ©2006.
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- Description
- 249 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Sixty years after the end of World War II Stylianos (Stelios) Perrakis, Greek-born finance professor who has lived most of his life in Canada, went back to Greece to investigate a traumatic event in his family's history that colored his childhood years. The circumstances surrounding the kidnapping and murder of his maternal uncle by a Communist death squad in May 1944, in the Argolida region of the Greek Peloponnese, were cloaked in mystery, never discussed openly by family members. Using trial transcripts, interviews with survivors and with people involved in his uncle's kidnapping, and such primary materials as unpublished diaries and family correspondence, Perrakis managed to document the full sequence of events that led up to this family tragedy. He then widened his focus to draw out the implications of this particular event, painting an intimate picture of a prosperous middle-class provincial world faced with extraordinary challenges that it was unable to overcome."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-241) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Preface -- 2. Prologue -- 3. The land, the people, the times -- 4. Greece 1940-1944 : war, occupation and resistance -- 5. Argolida 1943-1944 : communist takeover and red terror -- 6. The murder -- 7. Retribution I : Spetses and Drepanon -- 8. Days of wrath -- 9. The second round and aftermath -- 10. Retribution II : the trial -- 11. Epilogue -- 12. Postscript -- App. 1. List of the wartime political organizations and their acronyms -- App. 2. List of the principal characters in the story -- Glossary of Greek terms used in the book.
- ISBN
- 0838640907 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005021502
- 9780838640906
- OCLC
- OCM61228598
- SCSB-14298365
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries