André Gerolymatos

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André Gerolymatos is a professor at Simon Fraser University, and holds the Hellenic Canadian Congress of British Columbia Chair in Hellenic Studies.

Gerolymatos is the author of a number of books on Greek history, including 2004's Red Acropolis, Black Terror: The Greek Civil War and the Origins of Soviet-American Rivalry, 1943-1949, which argues that the Greek Civil War was the first engagement of the United States in the Cold War.

In 2005, Gerolymatos was interviewed for the documentary film The 11th Day: Crete 1941. A film which documents the battle of Crete and the resistance which followed.

[edit] Bibliography

• Guerrilla Warfare and Espionage in Greece 1940-1944, Pella Publishing Company, New York 1992, pp. 400.
• The Balkan Wars: Myth, Reality and the Eternal Conflict, (Toronto: Stoddart Publishing Co. April 2001).
• Espionage and Treason: A Study of the Proxenia in Political and Military Intelligence Gathering in Classical Greece, J.C. Gieben Publishers, Amsterdam, 1986, pp. 140. Translated into Greek as Kataskopia stin Archaia Ellada [Espionage in Ancient Greece] (Kaktos Publishers, Athens 2001)
• The Balkan Wars: Conquest, Revolution and Retribution from the Ottoman Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond. Basic Books, New York, 2002.
• Red Acropolis, Black Terror: The Greek Civil War and the Origins of Soviet-American Rivalry, 1943-1949 (2004)