Acclaimed for its penetration, balance and insight, "Modern Greece" tells the story of Greece and the Greek people from the founding of Constantinople to the late twentieth century. "Very readable, very informative". ("Sunday Times").[...]

As commander of the Allied Military Mission to the Greek guerrillas in German-occupied Greece, Colonel Woodhouse held an uneasy balance between the Communists and the government. He was in a prime position to write the history of the Greek civil war, and his account of this turning point in Communis[...]