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Book Title
Beyond the Frontier
Publication Name
Beyond the Frontier
Title
Beyond the Frontier
Subtitle
The Politics of a Failed Mission: Bulgaria 1944
Author
E. P. Thompson
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
0804728976
EAN
9780804728973
ISBN
9780804728973
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Genre
History, Political Science
Release Year
1997
Release Date
01/02/1997
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.5in
Item Length
8.5in
Item Weight
5.8 Oz
Publication Year
1997
Type
Textbook
Topic
Europe / Eastern, History & Theory
Item Width
5.5in
Number of Pages
120 Pages

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E. P. Thompson (1924-1993) was one of the preeminent British historians of the second half of the twentieth century; his The Making of the English Working Class (1964) is arguably the most influential work of British history published during that period. In the present work, originally presented as a set of lectures at Stanford University, Thompson returned to a question that had been on his mind since the war years, the circumstances surrounding the death of his older brother Frank as a British Liaison Officer with the Bulgarian partisans in 1944. Though these events, Thompson admitted, constituted only a historical footnote, they afforded him an opportunity to engage larger intellectual and political matters that we now associate with the early beginnings of the Cold War and to illustrate certain elements of historical method. Thompson was here concerned not so much with what is fact and what is interpretation as with "the activities of anti-historians, how sensitive evidence is destroyed or screened, how myths originate, how historical anecdote may simply be a code for ideology, how the reasons of state are eternally at war with historical knowledge." Early in 1944, a British Special Operations mission was parachuted into Serbia to make contact with a group of Bulgarian partisans operating in the area. Their aim was to arrange air drops of supplies for the partisans and to assist them in extending guerrilla warfare across the frontier into Bulgaria itself. Frank Thompson was head of the British mission when it entered Bulgaria with the partisan forces. By the end of May, the entire group had been killed or captured. After a show trial, Frank (though a British officer in uniform) was executed by a firing squad together with the remaining leaders of the partisans and the villagers who had aided them. The book shows how the status of the actors in this drama--and the respect accorded to them in the decades that followed--varied with changes in the political climate of Europe and the world. It does not simply examine the events themselves, although these are clarified, but also analyzes the politics that lay behind the events, notably the conflicting interests of the "western" and "eastern" allies in supporting the partisans and the British liaison mission.

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Publisher
Stanford University Press
ISBN-10
0804728976
ISBN-13
9780804728973
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Author
E. P. Thompson
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Europe / Eastern, History & Theory
Publication Year
1997
Type
Textbook
Genre
History, Political Science
Number of Pages
120 Pages

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Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
5.8 Oz

Additional Product Features

Publication Name
Beyond the Frontier : the Politics of a Failed Mission: Bulgaria 1944
Copyright Date
1997
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
940.5/486/41
Dewey Edition
21

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  • Beyond the Frontier - E.P. Thompson

    This is a fitting day to write about a book dedicated to the memory of Major Frank Thompson as he was executed on June 5th as the British liaison officer for a band of Bulgarian partisans in WWII. The survivors of the group and villagers who had helped them were executed along with him, by the Bulgarian Army. I had read of Major Thompson and twice visited the town and Memorial dedicated to him in a mountain town near where he was killed. He is still well known and thought highly of by the people of Bulgaria and children still learn about him in school. This book was written by his brother and is based on a series of lectures he gave at Stanford Uiniversity on the life of his brother and what led to his death at the age of 24, on the soil of Bulgaria. It is a bit disjointed as it was ...