A dark room 1967-1974

Twenty-five years of research were needed to gather the unpublished and rare material for the Seven Years that determined the historical course of our country. It contains testimonies of many protagonists and focuses on the role of the American services.The book sheds light on some of the most debated questions in modern Greek history: the overthrow of dictator Papadopoulos by Ioannidis, the role of important figures of the time, such as Aristotle Onassis, the discovery of oil in the Aegean, how the tension between Greece and Turkey began. in 1974, with unknown backgrounds, as to who gave assurances to Ioannidis before the fatal coup against Makarios and the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. It also investigates how the Americans treated Konstantinos Karamanlis and Andreas Papandreou, as well as what their predictions were for the role they would play in the future history of the place.You will "hear" -for the first time- the voices of Dimitrios Ioannidis and the leader of the Armed Forces, General Grigorios Bonanos, at the War Council of July 20, 1974. It was a moment of chaos, of despair. This is a shocking depiction of the inadequacy of those who were managing the fate of the nation at that time. The 38 minutes of this War Council are a valuable document for understanding the facts.