Of the original edition published in 1968, the Times Literary Supplement wrote: "The temporal scope of the book in fact covers with continuous narrative no less than sixteen centuries." This new revised edition has been updated to include the presidential and parliamentary elections of 1985. Includes an index.

(Key Words: History, modern history, Greece, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Syria, Slavs, Thessaloniki, Russia, Eastern Orthodoxy, Rome, Peloponnese, Papandreou, Orthodox Church, NATO, Metaxas, Ionian Islands, Epirus, Epiros, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Anatolia, Albania).