The Polk Conspiracy: Murder and Cover-Up in the Case of CBS News Correspondent George Polk

In war-torn Greece, the murder of a young American reporter sent a shock through the West and set the stage for the four-decade Cold War; now with a new introduction by the author

Greece in 1948 was a country reeling from two major conflicts. The Nazi occupation and World War II had left it weakened, and the Greek Civil War—already raging for two years—had torn it apart. One of the earliest clashes of the Cold War, Greece's civil dispute pitted the American-backed royalist government agains...