The Old Print Shop

The Balkan Battleground.

  • ARTIST:

  • PUBLISHER: Published in Look Magazine, Des Moines.

  • MEDIUM: Color offset,

    DATE: July 1940.

  • EDITION SIZE: Sheet size 13 1/2 x 19 3/4" (34.2 x 52.7 cm_.

  • DESCRIPTION: A centerfold map of the Balkans just prior to the Axis invasion in October of 1940.<br><br> The Balkans campaign of World War II began with the Italian invasion of Greece on 28 October 1940. In the early months of 1941, Italy's offensive had stalled and a Greek counter-offensive pushed into Albania. Germany sought to aid Italy by deploying troops to Romania and Bulgaria and attacking Greece from the east. Meanwhile, the British landed troops and aircraft to shore up Greek defenses. A coup d'etat in Yugoslavia on 27 March caused Adolf Hitler to order the conquest of that country.<br><br> The invasion of Yugoslavia by Germany and Italy began on 6 April, simultaneously with the new Battle of Greece; on 11 April, Hungary joined the invasion. By 17 April the Yugoslavians had signed an armistice and by 30 April all of mainland Greece was under German or Italian control. On 20 May Germany invaded Crete by air and by 1 June all remaining Greek and British forces on the island had surrendered. Although it had not participated in the attacks in April, Bulgaria occupied parts of both Yugoslavia and Greece shortly thereafter for the remainder of the war in the Balkans.

  • ADDITIONAL INFO:

  • CONDITION: Good condition and color.

  • REFERENCE:

  • CATEGORIES: Maps

Related Products