Andreas Papandreou Book review

Cold War History recently published my review of Stan Draenos's very interesting book "Andreas Papandreou: The Making of a Greek Democrat and Political Maverick", which also deals with the Greek politician's role in the events that led to the military coup d'etat of  1967 and the imposition of the Greek Colonels' dictatorship.

You can read the review here (free access for 50 viewers).

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Francis Noel-Baker

Here's a set of articles and obituaries on Francis Noel-Baker, a former Labour MP that passed away almost four months ago.

Noel-Baker had supported the democratic government overthrown by the coup of 1967, but he praised the "honest Colonels" for tackling corruption and inefficiency. He scorned torture allegations by Amnesty International as "grossly exaggerated", and hailed the regime as "the best for years".

More LSE

Here are some photos of LSE, which (apart from being my host institution) is also where mass student demonstrations took place in '68 (more info, in Greek, here) and '69, where Ann Chapman used to work part-time, and, finally, where Andreas Papandreou secretly met FCO officials.