"In his comprehensive history André Gerolymatos demonstrates how the Greek Civil War played a pivotal role in the shaping of policy and politics in post-Second World War Europe and America and was a key starting point of the Cold War. Based in part on recently declassified documents from Greece, the United States, and the British Intelligence Services, this masterful study sheds new light on the aftershocks that have rocked Greece in the seven decades following the end of the bitter hostilities." -- Publisher's description

"Portions of this book appeared in an earlier work titled Red Acropolis, Black Terror (New York: Basic Books, 2004).--Title page verso.

Prologue -- 1. Origins -- 2. Authoritarianism, war, and occupation -- 3. The politics of violence : from resistance to civil war -- 4. Bloody December : the second round of the civil war -- 5. The pogrom of the left : the prelude to white terror -- 6. Balkan machinations : KKE, CPY, and the Macedonian conundrum -- 7. The politics of hate and retribution -- 8. From insurgency to civil war -- 9. The cauldron of battle : Grammos and Vitsi -- Epilogue.