Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation - Softcover

The best history of Greece around... Beautifully written and packed with insights about the culture and the people. I will be dipping into this book for the rest of my life. (Victoria Hislop The Week)

His new book - judicious, well-researched and commendably up-to-date - deserves to be the standard general history of modern Greece in English for years to come. (Financial Times)

This book explores the history, not of a Greece of romantic or philhellenic imagination, but the reality of the country as it has become today. The empathy it evokes for the survival of modern Greek statehood against a recurring pattern of often existential crisis is all the more compelling, subtle and above all human in its many-sidedness. Beaton's account instantly becomes the single most outstanding treatment of its subject and shows us why - as Lord Palmerston expressed it succinctly for his own times - 'Greece' is an emotional word that still matters to contemporary society. (Professor Robert Holland)

A wonderfully engaging narrative ... It is a superb achievement and to be recommended to anyone with even the most rudimentary interest (Professor Kevin Featherstone)

A perceptive analysis of Greece's financial crisis, the embers of which continue to threaten to derail the single currency project of the EU (Country Life)

Praise for Byron's War: Indispensable (Literary Review)