Author: Averoff-Tossizza, Evangelos [1910-1990]
Title: By Fire and Axe : The Communist Party and the Civil War in Greece, 1944-1949
Description: New Rochelle [NY], Caratzas Brothers, 1978. orig.cloth, dustwrapper.. 23x15cm, xi,438 pp. Translated of the French 'Le feu et la hache' by Sarah Arnold Rigos.. 35p photoplates + 10pp maps.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Some Basic Facts; Historical Survey of the Greek Communist Party;The Greek-Italian War; The First Act of the Civil War (1943-1944); The Second Act of the Greek Civil War (End of 1944); The Curtain Rises; By Fire & Axe; The Rising Tide; Freedom or Death; 1948: Year of Suffering; Toward a Final Settlement; Retrospectives & Perspectives.

Keywords: Modern Greece, Political History, Communism, Communist Party, Civil War, Politics, Balkan Balkans, Kommounistikon, Komma tes Hellados, KKE