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THE MILITARY IN GREEK POLITICS: FROM INDEPENDENCE TO DEMOCRACY by Thanos Veremis, (C Hurst & Co., London, 1998), NPG, 227 pages
Written by one of Greece's leading scholars, The Military in Greek Politics is a welcome addition to the English language literature on a subject that has not, hitherto, been the focus of much attention either by historians of Modern Greece or by specialists on the relationship between politics and the armed forces in the wider world. Although the period of the Colonels has been chronicled in considerable detail, the Junta was simply the last phase of direct military involvement in Greek politics in a pattern of intervention that has spanned most of this...