American Intervention in Greece, 1943-1949
Based upon massive research in new-opened government records—many of them never before examined by scholars—American Intervention in Greece reveals how U.S. policymakers seriously misunderstood the nature of Greece’s leftist insurrection of the 1940s. In addition, it illustrates how the U.S. government began a major counter-revolutionary campaign that launched a bloody civil war, turned Greek politics rightward, and set the stage for a military coup in Greece and for U.S. military intervention in Vietnam.
“Meticulously researched and well-written. . . . Utilizing recently released documents and a plethora of other published and unpublished materials, Wittner traces with skill and precision the formulation and implementation of American policy. . . . Wittner has written an important book, rich in factual material and argument.”
—American Historical Review
“The best study we have of this subject. Wittner . . . does an excellent job of telling what went on in Greece in the 1940s—and in London and Washington when Greece was on the minds of policy makers in those capitals. . . . An extremely impressive variety of primary sources has been tapped . . . and one comes away appreciative both of Wittner’s capacity for deep research and his ability to integrate the resulting mass of nuts and bolts. . . . The book [is] a fine, rich contribution to the literature of the Cold War.”
—Reviews in American History