Publisher
Penguin, paperback
The author began writing his fascinating story of Greece in August 2015, just a month after the country had for the third time barely avoided exit from the Eurozone which, he argues, would have been chaotic and damaging, and not just in Greece. By the time I finished it (the book), my own country had embarked on its own exit from the European Union, writes the Englishman, who is Emeritus Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History at King s College London.
A three-time winner of the Runciman Award for previous books, Beaton is the author of a much-acclaimed biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Greek poet and diplomat, George Seferis, who won the literary award in 1963.