Morgenthau, Henry. I Was Sent to Athens. Doubleday, New York, 1929. 1st Edition. DJ. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good with some edge wear. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good with some edge wear and tape on the lower corners - front and back. 327 pages.

"As chairman of the League of Nations' Commission for the reconstruction of Greece, Henry Morgenthau helped to rebuild a nation. Steering his way between kings and revolutions, he saved a million and a quarter starving and destitute people, who, fleeing from the ravages of the Turks, were forced to the already over populated mainland..."