As the only member of NATO and the European Union to support
Slobodan Milošević's regime in the conflict following the breakup of
Yugoslavia, Greece broke ranks with its Western allies, frustrating their
efforts to impose sanctions against Serbia. Distinguished Greek journalist
Takis Michas covered the war in the Balkans during the 1990s and
saw at first hand the effects of Greek support for Serbia. In this account,
he follows Greek-Serbian relations and tackles the difficult question
of how the Greek people could ignore Serbian aggression
and war crimes.

    The pro-Serbian stance taken by Athens shocked many who assumed
that all members of NATO would follow the lead of the United States and
the United Nations. Instead, Greece supported Serbia from the outbreak
of war in the former Yugoslavia in 1991 through the NATO bombing and
occupation of Kosovo eight years later. Michas combines journalistic
accounts with anecdotes and personal interviews to show a pattern of
Greek support for Milošević and Radovan Karadzić that implicates Greek
politicians from all parties, as well as the Greek Orthodox Church, the
Greek media, and ultimately the Greek people themselves.

    The evidence and conclusions presented will disturb those who believe
that a new liberal order replaced the ideological standoff of the Cold War,
but they will not surprise those who suspect that older allegiances have
now claimed the loyalties of many of the world's peoples.

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TAKIS MICHAS lives in Athens, where he works for the Greek daily
Eleftherotypia. He is the author of two previous books and has
contributed articles to the Wall Street Journal and the New Republic.


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What people are saying about this book


". . . fills a gap in the large body of work on the Balkan crises. . . . 
[this] impassioned and often obsessive account deserves to be
taken seriously for exposing mistakes that must not be repeated."
—Wall Street Journal

“Takis Michas, a courageous Greek journalist, has written a superb and 
devastating critique of his country’s support of the Serb nationalists in
their war for Greater Serbia."—The Economist

". . . an impressive book combining personal observation, exhaustive
investigation, humanitarian concerns, and political analysis . . .
essential reading for all those Europeans, Americans, and Greeks
who are concerned with Greece's role in the Balkans, NATO, the
European Union, and the world."—Samuel Huntington

"Greek involvement in the fall of Srebrenica and the subsequent
massacre is one of the subjects examined in an explosive new book by
Takis Michas, a Greek journalist. His book, Unholy Alliance: Greece
and Milošević’s Serbia, is a major exposé of the way Greece supported
both former Yugoslav and Serbian President Slobodan Milošević and the
Bosnian Serbs during their campaigns."—Tim Judah, Transitions Online