<b>Professor Neill Lochery</b> is a world-renowned authority on the politics and modern history of Europe and the Mediterranean Middle East. He is a professor of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Studies at University College London and the author of a dozen books including: <i>Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light 1939-45</i> (Perseus), <i>Brazil: The Fortunes of War and the Making of Modern Brazil </i>and <i>The Resistible Rise of Benjamin Netanyahu</i>. He lives in London.
A landmark work … it fills a glaring void in the literature and offers an approachable, fair-minded and at times even a whimsical introduction to the past four decades of Portuguese history. * Times Literary Supplement * A useful introduction to an underappreciated corner of Europe, tracing the country’s history from the fall of authoritarian rule in the so-called Carnation Revolution of 1974 to the present. * Foreign Affairs * Affectionate ... the originality of Lochery's book lies in its sources * Literary Review *