We proceed to the fifth edition of the classic concise handbook by Apostolos E. Vakalopoulos, "Modern Greek History, from 1204 to the beginning of the 21st century," due to the urgent need for wider dissemination of this concise and user-friendly history of modern Greece. Philistoric readers and studying youth can find major events and some details in the 652 pages, how the people remained immortal, how they shaped their course during the dark years of subjugation, how they led to revolution, how they gained their freedom. The formation and construction of the Greek state, the completion of the bloody liberation wars against the dynasties for the inclusion of the main Greek territories in the national body, and its current participation in European affairs are described in detail. The vivid and thoughtful pen of Apostolos E. Vakalopoulos delivers an unparalleled work, which has the basic and only virtue of reliable presentation of events and drawing conclusions-statements that invite the reader to reflect even on some morbid obsessions that characterize the Neo-Greek.