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1990-Hardback with dustjacket. First Edition. Book is in good condition. Book

1990-Hardback with dustjacket. First Edition. Book is in good condition. Book has shelf wear, stains on page edges. Dustjacket has shelf wear, sunning to spine, tear on spine. NO International or priority. Free tracking with domestic orders. NO RETURNS AFTER 30 DAYS. MD SKU-8761925 TrueCrime.

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 369 p. Audience: General/trade. book and jacket are clean and bright.

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 369 p. Audience: General/trade. book and jacket are clean and bright.

New York. 1990. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in

New York. 1990. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374135533. 371 pages. hardcover. keywords: Politics Greece America Journalism History. FROM THE PUBLISHER-In an era when foreign correspondents were among the most celebrated American figures, the body of CBS correspondent George Polk was found floating in Greece's Salonika Bay on May 16, 1948. His hands and feet were bound and there was a bullet hole in his head. A protege of Edward R. Murrow, Polk was famed for his fearless reporting from the Middle East and from Greece, which was then in the throes of civil war. To the members of the royalist Greek regime, dependent on military and financial aid from the United States, the murder of George Polk posed a threat greater than any generated by his broadcast reports of their corruption. For the United States, which under the Truman Doctrine had decided to draw the line in Greece against Communism, the murder also created a crisis. If it had been ordered by the royalists, how could the United States continue to support them, even against Communist guerrillas? Several investigations were launched, including one by American journalists, headed by Walter Lippmann and directed by General William ('Wild Bill') Donovan, founder of the OSS. Ultimately the Greek government produced a suspect-Salonika journalist Gregory Staktopoulos-and a confession attributing the crime to Communist guerrillas. A dramatic trial and conviction ensued, and there the matter rested. But serious questions have persisted over the years, underscored by Staktopoulos' recantation of his confession in 1968. The author has constructed a vivid, convincing account of who ordered the assassination of George Polk-and the motive behind it. inventory #14837.