Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark was born in 1882, the fourth son of King George I and Queen Olga of Greece. He served as an officer in the Balkan Wars and the Greco-Turkish War, and was held partly responsible for his country's defeat and loss of territory in the latter. After being court-martialled for disobeying orders, he and his family-his wife Princess Alice, their four daughters, and son (Prince Philip, later duke of Edinburgh)-were banished and he died in 1944. Towards Disaster, an account of the war and a defence of his actions, was published in 1930. This edition includes an introduction by John Van der Kiste, author of Kings of the Hellenes.
