The Salonika Bay Murder: Cold War Politics and the Polk Affair

by Edmund Keeley

Book Overview

Edmund Keeley makes a penetrating inquiry into the injustices of the "Polk affair"--the sensational murder of the zealous American journalist George Polk during the Greek Civil War, and the subsequent trial of a scapegoat in whitewashed proceedings that involved not only Greek, American, and British government officials but also a committee of distinguished American journalists and their representatives in Greece. Keeley's account shows how Cold War...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691055653
• ISBN13: 9780691055657
• Release Date: April 1989
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.6"