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1 online resource : illustrations. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
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Forbidden bookshelf |
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Forbidden bookshelf.
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| Note |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed September 24, 2014). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
In war-torn Greece, the murder of a young American reporter sent a shock through the West and set the stage for the four-decade Cold War; now with a new introduction by the author. Greece in 1948 was a country reeling from two major conflicts. The Nazi occupation and World War II had left it weakened, and the Greek Civil War--already raging for two years--had torn it apart. One of the earliest clashes of the Cold War, Greece's civil dispute pitted the American-backed royalist government against the Soviet-funded Greek Communist Party. Reporting at the front lines for CBS News, George Polk drew the ire of both sides with his uncompromising and incisive coverage. In mid-May, days after going missing, Polk was found dead, shot execution style with his hands and feet bound. What transpired next was a mad scramble of finger pointing and international outrage. To appease its American backers, the Greek government quickly secured the dubious confession of a Communist journalist--though the bulk of the evidence pointed to the royalists. An influential moment in the early days of the Cold War and a powerful force in the formation of the Truman Doctrine, the Polk conspiracy was emblematic of the ideological conflict that would embroil the globe for the next forty years. |
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Murder -- Greece -- Thessalonikē -- Case studies.
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Polk, George, 1913-1948.
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Murder victims -- Greece -- Thessalonikē -- Case studies.
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Journalists -- Greece -- Thessalonikē -- Case studies.
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Greece -- Politics and government -- 1935-1967.
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HISTORY / Europe / Greece
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
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| Genre |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Freading.
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| ISBN |
9781497672673 electronic bk. |
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1497672678 electronic bk. |
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