Concluding Hugh Gilchrist's aware winning history, volume three covers an age
of war and migration - when world crisis brought Greeks and Australians into
intimate contact.
It identifies thousands of Australian Greeks who fought in World War II,
reporting Heroic exploits like those of Angelo Barbouttis - who destroyed two
barges full of Japanese soldiers in New Guinea.
It described desperate struggles of Australian fighting in occupied Greece,
and the Cretan and mainland Greeks, who looked after them such as Lela
Karayianni, shot by the Nazis for having saved dozens of Australian lives.
New generations of Greek Australians making their mark in the professions and
other walks of life are covered. So in Greek society in wartime and post-war
Australia - the Church, the Press, education, politics and social life.
As immigration brought large numbers from a troubled post-War Greece,
Australia diplomats laboured to secure Greece's place in its neighbourhood. Aid
workers delivered vital help to the suffering population and famous Australians,
including Patrick White and Dr Evatt, took part in Greek affairs. This book
follows these issues through to the establishment of Greece's permanent
diplomatic mission in Australia in the 1950s.
It includes the first detailed and objective review of the work f the U.N.
Special Commission on the Balkans. And through a period of travel and
communications, Hugh Gilchrist surveys trade and the Greek ships which came to
Australia - many sunk in the War, others bringing migrants to a new home.
Like Volumes 1 (now out of print), and 2, 'Australians and Greeks: The Later
Years' is both a definitive history of its period (1939-1953) and an
entertaining array of colourful characters and stories.
Contents:
Chronology
1. Prelude to War
2. 1941: Advance and Withdrawal
3. The War Service of Australia's Greeks
4. The Home Front
5. Australians in Occupied Greece
6. The Care of War Graves
7. Liberation and Division
8. Planning Post-War Relief
9. The Red Cross in Greece
10. The Jewish Medical Team
11. United National Welfare Workers
12. The Greek-Australia League
13. The League for Democracy
14. United Nations Intervention: Security Council Action
15. United Nations Intervention: General Assembly Action
16. To Return the Children
17. Post-War Travellers
18. The Consuls of Greece
19. The Resumption of Migration
20. Maritime Links
21. Trade: Rupture and Revival
22. The Greek Press in Australia
23. Church and Community
24. Greek-Australia Society
25. Towards Diplomatic Relations
Postscript: The Lysikratis Monument
Notes and Sources
Epilogue and Acknowledgements
Corrections and Additions to Volumes 1 and 2
Appendix 1. Australian War Dead in Greece
Appendix 2. Greek Service in the Australian Forces
Appendix 3. Demographic Statistics
Appendix 4. Voyages of Greek Ships to Australia
Index
Related Titles:
Australians and Greeks Volume 2: The Middle Years
