Ex-King Constantine and the War | George Melas

"Now I wish at the outset to make it abundantly clear that I do not aim at writing the history of King Constantine's reign; my intention is merely to give publicity to those facts, documents, stories and reminiscences of events of which I have hade personal cognizance. Having had occasion to meet M. Venizelos in London, I might have requested him to give me a detailed account of the events herein recorded. I did not do so because I should have diminished the anecdotal value of this book had I restricted myself to a cut-and-dried enumeration of incidents. To do so, moreover, would have been inconsistent with the unambitious character of this work. I cannot too emphatically insist that I do not claim to have written a history ; all I have attempted to do is to make the history of the period more readily understood, by throwing some light — though in such a haphazard way as will certainly earn me the condemnation of the critics — on the principal personages of the drama. I therefore crave the indulgence of the reader, and I shall esteem myself amply rewarded if I succeed in engaging his interest". (From the author's Foreword)

Ex-King Constantine and the war. George M. Melas. First edition: London, Hutchinson and Co, 1920. Present edition: GRECOBOOKS - ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΠΡΩΤΟΠΟΡΙΑ, THESSALONIKI, GREECE, 2025. Pages: 320. ISBN: 978-618-5383-61-9

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I) King Constantine

II) Veniselos

III) The King and Veniselos

IV)  The King and the Entente

V)  The King’s Illness

VI)  The Etat-Major

VII)  The Dardanelles:  The “Goeben” and “Breslau”

VIII)  Germany and Greece

IX)  Scruples

X)  Some Documents