Democracy at Gunpoint: The Greek Front - Andreas Papandreou

The most controversial figure in Greece in the sixties has written a history which is a vitally important comment on the future of democracy in his own country and throughout the world. Andrea Papandreou is the son of Greece's most popular post-war leader, a former minister in his father's cabinet and an economist of international stature; this is his story of the crisis in Greece, a drama in which he was involved first a partisan leader, then as political prisoner, and which has now made him an exile.

Papandreou offers a lucid, objective summary of the tangled history of Greece subce Wirkd War II, starting documented book contains much new and even sensational material about the King's intentions and the involvement of the CIA, and a gripping narrative of the colonel's successful coup. But Democracy at Gunpoint is much more than history; it is also a passionate and moving account of one man's struggle to restore the ancient democratic tradition to his native land, the country which gave it birth, and a chilling record of what he considers to be the betrayal of his nation by its closest allies. For Papandreou, the triumph of totalitarianism in Greece represents a larger international problem, and this book brings home with some urgency the relevance of the Greek predicament to the fate of free institutions everywhere.