Books by David H. Close

Tracing the history of Greece in the period 1945-2000, this introduction takes an analytical and chronological approach. Frequent comparisons are made with countries of western Europe and with other Balkan countries, in order to show how Greece converged with Western Europe and in what ways it remained unique or characteristically Balkan.

This volume examines the origins of the Greek civil war. It covers the right-wing dictatorship (1935-41); the invasion and collapse of authority (1941-1943); the EAM challenge of the old order (1943-1944); the defeat of the revolution; the White Terror; the descent to civil war; and the war itself.