“It represents the best type of its class of literature, written, as it is, in a delightfully informal and intimate mood, with description and anecdote blended with a rare felicity.” B. R. Redman
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GIBBONS, HERBERT ADAMS. Venizelos. (Modern statesmen ser.) il *$3.50 Houghton
20–20218
Much of this biography is based on the author’s personal acquaintance with his subject. As a college teacher in the Near East he has, moreover, an intimate knowledge of the entire political situation that precipitated the second Balkan war, that kept Greece neutral in 1915 and 1916, and that dictated the policy of Venizelos at the peace conference. Venizelos, although a native of Crete, inherited his Hellenism and became active in its cause from the time he entered the University of Athens as a law student. Contents: The boyhood and early manhood of an unredeemed Greek; A revolutionary by profession; Venizelos solves the Cretan question; Venizelos intervenes in Greece; The Balkan alliance surprises Europe; Turkey is crushed by her former Balkan subjects; The second Balkan war and the treaty of Bukarest; Venizelos reorganizes Greece internally; Venizelos offers to join the entente against Germany; Constantine tries to keep Greece neutral; Venizelos goes to Saloniki; Greece in the world war; Venizelos at the peace conference; Greece against the integrity of the Ottoman empire. The book has a number of maps and is illustrated and indexed.
“This study is not that of an academic student, nor a detached investigator. As the author himself states in his introduction, he is more a reporter than a historian. His narrative gains thereby measurably in freshness and interest.” O. McK., jr.
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“The book was written before the downfall of Premier Venizelos, but it will be none the less useful.”
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