The Big Three Allies and the European Resistance Intelligence, Politics, and the Origins of the Cold War, 1939-1945

Tommaso Piffer, Associate Professor of Contemporary History, University of Udine

Tommaso Piffer is an Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Udine, in Italy. Previously, he was a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Cambridge and Harvard University, a post-doctoral fellow at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, and the Bodossakis Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

PART 1
1. Resistance and diplomacy in occupied Europe (September 1939-June 1940)
2. The Special Operations Executive at war (July 1940 - June 1941)
3. The communists enter the scene (June 1941 - November 1941)
PART 2
4. Uncertain times (December 1941 - December 1942)
5. The militarization of British policy and the beginning Of US challenge in the Mediterranean (January - December 1943)
6. The communist movement on the offensive (January - December 1943)
PART 3
7. Civil war and liberation in the Balkans (1944-1945)
8. Central and Eastern Europe between liberation and Soviet occupation (1944-1945)
9. The liberation of Western Europe (1944-1945)
10. Conclusion