"The Revolution of 1821" by Dimitris Fotiadis is a grandiose work of our national self-awareness. A milestone in modern Greek historiography, it overturns myths and faithfully serves historical truth. It illuminates the nation's journey from the deep darkness of slavery to the dawn of national rebirth. Starting from the fall of Constantinople, it covers three hundred and seventy-eight years and reaches the independence of Greece. The author, weighing his material with the uncompromising eye of the historian and at the same time approaching it with the passion of a person for whom this history is not dead letter, has as his declared goal the synthesis. Through the vivification, that is, of historical moments, the precise but also creative reconstruction of the atmosphere of the era, the rich illustration, the utilization of the testimony of eyewitnesses, and the use of refined language, he delivers to the modern reader a literally captivating reading and to the researcher-analyst a perpetual asset.