Research Catalog

Title

Barbarism in Greece : a young American lawyer's inquiry into the use of torture in contemporary Greece, with case histories and documents / James Becket, foreword by Claiborne Pell.

Author

Becket, James.

Publication

New York, Walker [1970]

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Details

Additional Authors

Pell, Claiborne, 1918-2009

Description

xiv, 147 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"A young American lawyer's inquiry into the use of torture in contemporary Greece, with case histories and documents."

Subject

• 1967-1974
• 1960-1970
• Political prisoners > Greece > Biography
• Torture > Greece
• 15.70 history of Europe
• Political prisoners
• Politics and government
• Torture
• Greece > Politics and government > 1967-1974
• Greece
• Greece

Genre/Form

• Biography
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Source (note)

• Princeton (EX) copy is gift of Alexandros Xydēs to the Program in Hellenic Studies for Firestone Library.

Provenance (note)

• Princeton (EX) copy includes several handwritten notes by Alexandros Xydēs and two newspaper clippings.

Contents

CASE HISTORIES -- Katerina Arseni / Actress -- Petros Gavalas / Priest -- Costas Frantzeskakis / Accountant -- Dionysios Livanos / Newspaperman -- Constantine Meletis / Tradesman -- Gerassimos Notaras / Political Scientist -- Yiannis Leloudas / Poet, Archaeologist -- Stelios Nestor / Lawyer -- Anghelos Pnevmatikos / Army Officer -- Petros Vlassis / Student -- DOCUMENTS -- Amnesty International -- The International Committee of the Red Cross -- The European Commission of Human Rights -- The Greek Government -- APPENDICES -- Torture Methods -- Places of Torture and Names of Torturers -- List of Tortured Persons -- List of Resistance Organizations.

LCCN

73109187

OCLC

• ocm00065150
• 65150
• SCSB-148038

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library