Review of Gioula Koutsopanagou, The British Press and the Greek Crisis, 1943–1949: Orchestrating the Cold-War "Consensus" in Britain

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/historein.32259
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Book review Britain Greek Civil War Cold War Press and media
Loukianos Hassiotis
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5644-7202
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Review of Gioula Koutsopanagou, The British Press and the Greek Crisis, 1943–1949: Orchestrating the Cold-War “Consensus” in Britain. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 375 pp.

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Author Biography
Loukianos Hassiotis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Loukianos Hasiotis Associated Professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he has lectured in modern history since 2004. He is the author of three books: H “Aνατολική Oμοσπονδία”: Δύο ελληνικές φεντεραλιστικές κινήσεις στο τέλος του 19ου αιώνα [The “Eastern Federation”: Two Greek federalist movements in the late 19th century] (2001); Ελληνοσερβικές σχέσεις 1913–1918. Συμμαχικές προτεραιότητες και πολιτικές αντιπαλότητες [Greek-Serbian relations, 1913–1918: Allied Priorities and political rivalries] (2004); and Τα παιδιά του Εμφυλίου: Από την “Κοινωνική Πρόνοια” του Φράνκο στον “Έρανο” της Φρειδερίκης, 1936–1950 [The children of civil war: From Franco’s “social welfare” to Frederica’s “Eranos”, 1936–1950] (2013).

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