Our Man in Athens

'In this intriguing book, Dimitrakis takes us on a guided tour of a world inhabited by noble patriots,  ambitious bureaucrats, duplicitous schemers, petty informers, underworld rascals,  swindlers, and ruffians who played the great game of espionage in Greece during the First World War. Though deeply grounded in the archival sources, he brings to life the people who were James Bond before James Bond.  This is a fascinating tale, and Dimitrakis tells it well.  I recommend this book to anyone interested in the murky world of intrigue and espionage.'      Thomas W. Gallant Senior Research Scholar, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens& Emeritus Distinguished Professor, University of California, San Diego Author of  Modern Greece: From the War of Independence to the Present

‘This book explores the world of espionage in Greece during the First World War.  It is a story of misery and betrayal.  The deep divide between King Constantine and Venizelos created political stalemate that made Athens a magnet for a cast of unsavoury characters.  They contributed more to the history of intrigue than to the outcome of the war, or to the war after the Great War, which Greece lost catastrophically.’-Jay Winter, Charles J. Stille Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University Author of Remembering War:The Great War between history and memory in the Twentieth Century co-producer, co-writer, and chief historian for the PBS/BBC series ‘The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century’