Hi, I've recently started getting into the history of Modern Greece and in particular the Balkan Wars and the Greco-Turkish War. Venizelos strikes me as a super interesting figure, and probably the most important figure in the history of Greece in the 20th century.
Any good sources for reading about him or Greece at the end of 19th century and first few decades of the twentieth?
I'm glad you said sources rather than books because I'm going to go out on a limb and nominate The Times (London): following Greek developments as they unfolded from August 1909 (and earlier) offered me an entirely different perspective to the conventional narrative I was used to. This side appears better covered in more modern histories, but back then it was an eye-opener. I found it a fascinating illustration of how different things can seem looking backward or forward: by the end of 1910 the story's pretty much developing as intervening sources relate, but a year earlier things looked very different. And the paper was fortunate in its sources, possibly reflecting the regional presence of Bourchier, who'd previously acted as an intermediary in Crete and would later do so in the affairs of the Balkan League.