Articles & Commentary

  1. Ta Nea Review: "History of the Greek Revolution" (George Finlay)

    Rereading Finlay’s “Revolution”

    A rereading of George Finlay's "History of the Greek Revolution", in the translation by Alexandros Papadiamantis

  2. The Books’ Journal Review: "Some Secret Mystery" (Karolina Mermigka)

    A crack in national time

  3. Ta Nea Review: "The Hostages of Görlitz" (Thanasis Petrou)

    A comic about the hostages of Görlitz

    Thanasis Petrou's new creation recalls the story of the Fourth Army Corps, which in 1916 ended up in Germany

  4. Ta Nea Review: "1909: Greece's Transition to the 20th Century" (Sotiris Rizas)

    1909: the end and beginning of history

    The historian's concise introduction to the year that is interpreted as the boundary between modern and contemporary Greece

  5. Ta Nea Review: "Dispatches from the 21st Century" (Romanos Gerodimos)

    Return to the future

    The challenges of globalisation, contact with "others", national narratives, the symbols of identities and the dangers of political correctness, in the form of a travelogue

  6. Ta Nea Review: "The Arabs: A History" (Eugene Rogan)

    Arabs, those unknown people

    The American historian's exhaustive analysis of the volatile region of the planet, the history of pan-Arabism and of nationalisms, imperialism and the rivalry of the great powers

  7. Ta Nea Review: "Hello, Little Englishmen!" (Loukis Chasiotis)

    Through the eyes of the British

    The experiences of soldiers on the fronts of the Second World War through personal correspondence, diaries and memories

  8. Ta Nea Review: "Democratic Battalions" (Ioannis V. Daskarolis)

    When Armenians joined the Democratic Battalions

    A study of the activity of the military in the little-known period that followed the Asia Minor Catastrophe

  9. Ta Nea Review: "The First Crusade: The Call from the East" (Peter Frankopan)

    Clash of West and East

    The first book with which the professor of Global History at Oxford is introduced to the Greek public concerns the First Crusade

  10. LiFO Review: "The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914" (Christopher Clark)

    Christopher Clark: “History reminds us that we are not alone”

    One of the most important historians of our time speaks to LiFO.

  11. Ta Nea Review: "A Political History of the World: Three Thousand Years of War and Peace" (Jonathan Holslag)

    War, father of all

    The Belgian international relations scholar Jonathan Holslag, who teaches International Politics at the Free University of Brussels and at the NATO Defence College, is also an adviser to the Vice-Presidency of the European Commission.

  12. Ta Nea Review: "Konstantinos Kantiotis, Corfiot" (Vasilis Panagiotopoulos)

    The great story of a minor fighter

    Vasilis Panagiotopoulos's monograph on Konstantinos Kantiotis

  13. Ta Nea Review: "Inventing Paradise: The Greek Journey, 1937-47" (Edmund Keeley)

    A journey through the Greece of wounds

    A reissue of the classic edition by the great Modern Greek scholar who visited Greece in the period 1937 - 1947

  14. Ta Nea Review: "Alexandria: City of Memory" (Michael Haag)

    The history of a city, the history of an era

    A literary, social and political portrait of Alexandria at one of the peak moments of its history, in a book that became a classic and is being reissued in a new translation

  15. Ta Nea Review: "Seferis – Averoff" (Giorgos Georgis) · "The Dialogue of Giorgos Seferis and Evangelos Averoff: The Zurich and London Agreements" (Evanthis Hatzivassiliou)

    The Cyprus issue of Averoff and Seferis

    Two recent publications examine, from different starting points and with different aims, the intra-bourgeois conflict and the rift within the negotiating team

  16. Ta Nea Review: "Éloge des frontières." (Régis Debray) · "Le retour des frontières" (Michel Foucher)

    Advocacy for borders

    The recent publication by the French diplomat "converses" with Régis Debray's "Éloge des frontières"

  17. Ta Nea Review: "Spyridon: The Other Trikoupis (1788-1873)" (Lydia Tricha)

    Sp. Trikoupis and his era

    The reconstruction of the historical context in which the personality of Spyridon Trikoupis was formed

  18. Ta Nea Review: "The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam" (Douglas Murray)

    The identity of the new Europe

    The diffusion of new dilemmas in Europe in recent years has radically changed the political map and at the same time has called into question givens and constants of the long peaceful period after the war. Brexit was perhaps the loudest example of this new confrontation, which extends beyond the political to the ideological and cultural level.

  19. Ta Nea Review: "Kitsos Maltezos" (Petros Makris-Staikos)

    The “mythology” of Kitsos Maltezos

    The second edition on the murder of the student by the ELAS Student Group in 1944

  20. Ta Nea Review: "The Balkans in the Cold War" (Collective work)

    The Balkans, yesterday and today

    A collective volume with 16 articles by Greek and foreign university academics on the period of the Cold War