1821: The Greek War of Independence
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1821: The Greek War of Independence
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27 January 2020
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This classic work by the British military, politician and intellectual C. M. Woodhouse (1917-2001) remains one of the best and most comprehensive books on the Greek Revolution of 1821 internationally.
A war hero himself, the famous “Chris” or “Monty”, fellow soldier of Napoleon Zervas and Aris Velouchiotis in the resistance against the German occupation in Greece, demonstrates a penetrating understanding of the strategic aspects of the Greek-Turkish conflict. At the same time, with the sobriety and sensitivity of an unyielding European liberal, it highlights the complex political dimensions of a pioneering national liberation uprising, which managed to impose itself as a legitimate revolution in spite of all the internal and external obstacles of the time.
Woodhouse, one of the few Western philhellenes who never let the – real or imagined – ancient Greek ideals influence their view of modern Greeks and their love of modern Greece, proves here to be bold and perceptive in his judgments, ingenious in his use of his sources and slick as a storyteller. Thus, he offers the modern reader a fresh work, as if written just yesterday, worthy of the unquenchable brilliance of its subject.
(Edited and translated blurb from publisher’s website)
A war hero himself, the famous “Chris” or “Monty”, fellow soldier of Napoleon Zervas and Aris Velouchiotis in the resistance against the German occupation in Greece, demonstrates a penetrating understanding of the strategic aspects of the Greek-Turkish conflict. At the same time, with the sobriety and sensitivity of an unyielding European liberal, it highlights the complex political dimensions of a pioneering national liberation uprising, which managed to impose itself as a legitimate revolution in spite of all the internal and external obstacles of the time.
Woodhouse, one of the few Western philhellenes who never let the – real or imagined – ancient Greek ideals influence their view of modern Greeks and their love of modern Greece, proves here to be bold and perceptive in his judgments, ingenious in his use of his sources and slick as a storyteller. Thus, he offers the modern reader a fresh work, as if written just yesterday, worthy of the unquenchable brilliance of its subject.
(Edited and translated blurb from publisher’s website)
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