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Venizelos - The Making of a Greek Statesman 1864-1914 (Hardcover)
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Venizelos - The Making of a Greek Statesman 1864-1914 (Hardcover)
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Eleftherios Venizelos (1864-1936) was the outstanding Greek
statesman of the first half of the twentieth century. Michael
Llewellyn-Smith traces his early years, political apprenticeship in
Crete, and energetic role in that island's emancipation from both
Ottoman rule and the arbitrary rule of Prince George of Greece.
Summoned to Athens in 1910 by a cabal of officers, Venizelos
mastered the Greek political scene, sent the military back to
barracks, and led the country through a glorious period of
constitutional and political reform, ending in a Balkan alliance
waging successful war against Ottoman rule in Europe. By 1914,
Greece had doubled in territory and population, and was about to
face the challenges of European war. Tensions were rising between
the king and the prime minister, foreshadowing political schism.
This book illuminates Venizelos' political mastery, liberalism and
nationalism, and traces his fateful friendship with David Lloyd
George. A second volume will complete his story, with the Great
War, the post-war peace settlement, Greece's Asia Minor disaster,
and Venizelos' late years of renewed prime ministerial office,
political polarisation and exile in Paris.
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