This classic work by British military, political, and intellectual C. M. Woodhouse (1917-2001) remains internationally one of the best and most comprehensive books on the Greek Revolution of 1821.

A war hero himself, the famous "Chris" or "Monty," a comrade-in-arms of Napoleon Zervas and Aris Velouchiotis in the resistance against the German Occupation in Greece, demonstrates penetrating insight into the strategic aspects of the Greek-Turkish conflict. At the same time, with the sobriety and sensitivity of an unwavering European liberal, he highlights the complex political dimensions of a pioneering national liberation uprising that managed to impose itself as a legitimate revolution despite all the internal and external obstacles of the time.

Woodhouse, one of the few Western philhellenes who never let the -real or imaginary- ancient Greek ideals influence their perception of the Neo-Greeks and their love for modern Greece, proves here to be bold and perceptive in his judgments, resourceful in his use of sources, and vivid as a narrator. Thus, he offers the contemporary reader a fresh work, as if it were written just yesterday, worthy of the enduring brilliance of its subject.