Download or read book KING CONSTANTINE I of GREECE and the WAR written by George Melas and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IT is not my intention to attempt a minute portrait of the King any more than to write his history. His history, unhappily, he has written himself, and it will perhaps be one day written in still darker characters by posterity. I shall only roughly outline the principal traits that make up the portrait of the man. My intention, indeed, is to give the facts and to leave to the reader the task of portraying for himself the manifold and diverse constituents of which the King's nature was compounded. By this means I shall be assisting to correct the judgment of those people-and they are numerous-who think they know him already. One may well inquire, when one reflects how little their official biographers are sometimes acquainted with them, whether monarchs are ever really known to the world in general. I quitted the ex-King's service about the end of December, 1915. For more than a year I had striven daily, and with all the energy at my command, to fulfil the hope that sometimes seemed as though it would eventually be realized, of persuading him to abandon his neutrality and declare in favour of the Entente.From the days of our childhood onwards, that is to say for more than forty years, our mutual intercourse was never interrupted. He invariably displayed great friendliness, confidence and esteem towards me. And even when I was in his service and he knew that I was devoted heart and soul to the policy of the man who, from the very outset, I looked upon as the incarnation of the Hellenic spirit-need I say that I refer to M. Veniselos-even then, I say, he retained me at his side despite all the intrigues of my colleagues, whose jealousy was excited by the royal favours of which I was the object. Nay more, even when, feeling that I could no longer look on unmoved at the betrayal of my country's interests-I should rather say of my country itself-for the sake of Germany and our worst enemies, I handed him my resignation, he sent me word by Colonel Scoumbourdis, his principal aide-de-camp, that he did not accept it, and desired me to remain at my post, the only condition being that I should inform no one that I had intended to resign. I deferred to his wishes. Perhaps I was hoping against hope that things would even then take a different course. But what was chiefly in my mind was that I was his only real friend, and that if I quitted him, I should be delivering him over to the evil counsellors who surrounded him, whose tool in the carrying out of their selfish and nefarious machinations he would inevitably become. But the King, who never could keep a secret, spoke of my resignation to Streit, and possibly also to Dousmanis and Gounaris, told them about his refusal to accept it and how he had made it a condition that the matter was not to be talked about. These gentlemen, who saw in me an adversary ever ready to combat their growing and sinister influence, quickly realized that here was an admirable opportunity for procuring my dismissal from the Court. And so a couple of days later, when I had gone away to spend the holidays with my sister Madame Anna Papadopulo, the Nea Himera, Streit's own particular organ, came out with a flaring announcement of my resignation.These gentlemen, of course, made haste to convince the King that I had turned a deaf ear to his request, and urged him to sign a decree relieving me of my functions. A report of my dismissal was published in the papers controlled by them, and called forth a heated denial from my brother Constantine, an ex-naval officer, who was then a deputy and fully acquainted with the real facts.That was the only time King Constantine listened to any intrigues against me. It was a sorry piece of vindictiveness and unworthy of a king. He had just purely and simply to accept my resignation. But the King did not stop there. Shortly afterwards, having gone back to my military duties, I was ordered to leave Athens and to proceed to the Macedonian front.

Download or read book Ex King Constantine and the War written by George M. Mélas and published by London, Hutchinson & Company [1920]. This book was released on 1920 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Kings of the Hellenes written by John Van der Kiste and published by Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging book presents the lives of the Greek royal family between 1863 and 1974, during a period of turbulence, and shows both the benefits and disadvantages of the dynasty's close ties to the other royal houses of Europe.

Download or read book A King s Private Letters written by Constantine I (King of the Hellenes) and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Story of King Constantine written by J. Selden Willmore and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-10 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of King Constantine: A Revealed in the Greek White Book The King has pretended, in various statements that he has made, including interviews with foreign correspondents, that he acted throughout in the interests of his people. Whether he was doing so or whether he forgot that he held his throne on the condition of acting according to the wishes of his people, as expressed by their delegates in Parliament, Will best be gathered from a brief summary of the events which took place in Greece during the three years immedi ately succeeding the outbreak of the war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Greece and the Allies 1914 1922 written by G. F. Abbott and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-31 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Greece and the Allies 1914-1922" by G. F. Abbott. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

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Download or read book Greece and the Allies 1914 1922 written by George Frederick Abbott and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late convulsions in Greece and Turkey, and the consequent revival of all the mis-statements which, during the War, flowed from ignorance or malice, render the publication of this book particularly opportune.Mr. Abbott deals with his subject in all its aspects, and presents for the first time to the British public a complete and coherent view of the complicated circumstances that made Greece, during the War, the battle-ground of rival interests and intrigues, from which have grown the present troubles.In this book we get a clear account of the little-understood relations between the Greek and the Serb; of the attitude of Greece towards the Central Powers and the Entente; of the dealings between Greece and the Entente and the complications that ensued therefrom. Mr. Abbott traces the evil to its source-the hidden pull of British versus French interests in the Eastern Mediterranean, and the open antagonism between M. Venizelos and King Constantine.All these subjects are of acute interest, and not the least interesting is the last.The persecution of King Constantine by the Press of the Allied countries, with some few good exceptions, has been one of the most tragic affairs since the Dreyfus case. Its effect on the state of Europe during and since the War is remarkable. If King Constantine's advice had been followed, and the Greek plan for the taking of the Dardanelles had been carried out, the war would probably have been shortened by a very considerable period, Bulgaria and Rumania could have been kept out of the War, and probably the Russian Revolution and collapse would not have taken place; for, instead of having Turkey to assist Bulgaria, the Allied forces would have been between and separating these two countries. {vi}In this case King Constantine would not have been exiled from his country, and consequently he would not have permitted the Greek Army to be sent to Asia Minor, which he always stated would ruin Greece, as the country was not rich enough or strong enough to maintain an overseas colony next to an hereditary enemy like the Turk.It is illuminating to remember that the Greek King's policy was fully endorsed by the only competent authorities who had a full knowledge of the subject, which was a purely military one. These were the late Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, the British Admiral at the head of the Naval Mission in Greece, and Colonel Sir Thomas Cuninghame, British Military Attach� in Athens; but the advice tendered by these three officers was disregarded in favour of that given by the civilians, M. Venizelos and the Allied Ministers.Mr. Abbott's book will do much to enlighten a misled public as to the history of Greece during the last nine years, and many documents which have not hitherto been before the public are quoted by him from the official originals, to prove the case.For the sake of truth and justice, which used to flourish in Great Britain, I hope that this book will be read by everyone who has the welfare of the British Empire at heart....

Download or read book The Colonels Coup and the American Embassy written by Robert V. Keeley and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The so-called Colonels&’ coup of April 21, 1967, was a major event in the history of the Cold War, ushering in a seven-year period of military rule in Greece. In the wake of the coup, some eight thousand people affiliated with the Communist Party were rounded up, and Greece became yet another country where the fear of Communism led the United States into alliance with a repressive right-wing authoritarian regime. In military coups in some other countries, it is known that the CIA and other agencies of the U.S. government played an active role in encouraging and facilitating the takeover. The Colonels&’ coup, however, came as a surprise to the United States (which was expecting a Generals&’ coup instead). Yet the U.S. government accepted it after the fact, despite internal disputes within policymaking circles about the wisdom of accommodating the upstart Papadopoulos regime. Among the dissenters was Robert Keeley, then serving in the U.S. Embassy in Greece. This is his insider&’s account of how U.S. policy was formulated, debated, and implemented during the critical years 1966 to 1969 in Greek-U.S. relations.

Download or read book Tying Greece to the West written by Mogens Pelt and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tying Greece to the West: US-West German-Greek Relations 1949-74 examines the reconstruction of Greece in the post-war era and how the Greek foreign economic and political relations with the United States and West Germany developedespecially the Greek-West German trade and the American and West German financial and aid policy. Furthermore, it investigates what impact Greek foreign relations had on the domestic development, particularly in relation to the establishment of the dictatorship in 1967the so-called Colonels Regime. The Second World War disrupted the Greek economy, polarized politics and left Greece in a state of severe economic and social disorder. The Axis occupation was followed by civil war with devastating consequences and the Greek Civil War was one immediate reason for the declaration of the Truman Doctrine in 1947. The Truman Doctrine made Greece subject to the most costly overseas American aid program ever in peace time. However, gradually, West Germany became the b

Download or read book A War Like No Other written by Victor Davis Hanson and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2006-09-12 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our most provocative military historians, Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the twenty-first century. Now he juxtaposes an ancient conflict with our most urgent modern concerns to create his most engrossing work to date, A War Like No Other. Over the course of a generation, the Hellenic city-states of Athens and Sparta fought a bloody conflict that resulted in the collapse of Athens and the end of its golden age. Thucydides wrote the standard history of the Peloponnesian War, which has given readers throughout the ages a vivid and authoritative narrative. But Hanson offers readers something new: a complete chronological account that reflects the political background of the time, the strategic thinking of the combatants, the misery of battle in multifaceted theaters, and important insight into how these events echo in the present. Hanson compellingly portrays the ways Athens and Sparta fought on land and sea, in city and countryside, and details their employment of the full scope of conventional and nonconventional tactics, from sieges to targeted assassinations, torture, and terrorism. He also assesses the crucial roles played by warriors such as Pericles and Lysander, artists, among them Aristophanes, and thinkers including Sophocles and Plato. Hanson’s perceptive analysis of events and personalities raises many thought-provoking questions: Were Athens and Sparta like America and Russia, two superpowers battling to the death? Is the Peloponnesian War echoed in the endless, frustrating conflicts of Vietnam, Northern Ireland, and the current Middle East? Or was it more like America’s own Civil War, a brutal rift that rent the fabric of a glorious society, or even this century’s “red state—blue state” schism between liberals and conservatives, a cultural war that manifestly controls military policies? Hanson daringly brings the facts to life and unearths the often surprising ways in which the past informs the present. Brilliantly researched, dynamically written, A War Like No Other is like no other history of this important war.

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Download or read book Greece and the Allies 1914 1922 written by G. F. Abbott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Greece and the Allies 1914-1922 The late convulsions in Greece and Turkey, and the consequent revival of all the mis-statements which, during the War, flowed from ignorance or malice, render the publication of this book particularly opportune. Mr. Abbott deals with his subject in all its aspects, and presents for the first time to the British public a complete and coherent view of the complicated circumstances that made Greece, during the War, the battle-ground of rival interests and intrigues, from which have grown the present troubles. In this book we get a clear account of the little-understood relations between the Greek and the Serb; of the attitude of Greece towards the Central Powers and the Entente; of the dealings between Greece and the Entente and the complications that ensued there from. Mr. Abbott traces the evil to its source - the hidden pull of British versus French interests in the Eastern Mediterranean, and the open antagonism between M. Venizelos and King Constantine. All these subjects are of acute interest, and not the least interesting is the last. The persecution of King Constantine by the Press of the Allied countries, with some few good exceptions, has been one of the most tragic affairs since the Dreyfus case. Its effect on the state of Europe during and since the War is remarkable. If King Constantine's advice had been followed, and the Greek plan for the taking of the Dardanelles had been carried out, the war would probably have been shortened by a very considerable period, Bulgaria and Rumania could have been kept out of the War, and probably the Russian Revolution and collapse would not have taken place; for, instead of having Turkey to assist Bulgaria, the Allied forces would have been between and separating these two countries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.