Georgios Mylonas

Georgios Mylonas (Greek: Γεώργιος Αλεξάνδρου Μυλωνάς, April 6, 1919 – February 15, 1998) was a Greek Center Union politician and government minister. He was a close aide to Greek statesman and premier George Papandreou, and was repeatedly elected deputy for the Ioannina seat with the Center Union. Mylonas had served as an undersecretary to the premier's office and education undersecretary from 1963 to 1965. He assumed the transport ministry in the first post-junta government in 1974 and was Minister for Culture from 1989 to 1990. Mylonas was the author of the book Escape From Amorgos, detailing his escape from the island, where he was exiled during the 1967-74 military dictatorship.

Books

• Escape From Amorgos - The Story of a Greek political prisoner's struggle for freedom by George Mylonas, Scribners, 1974 - ISBN 0-684-13729-1
• Απόδραση από την Αμοργό, Γιώργος Μυλωνάς, Ποταμός, 2015, ISBN 978-960-545-045-8
• The Amorgos Conspiracy by Ilias Kulukundis, Eleftheroudakis, 2013, ISBN 978-960-20-0166-0

Press

• Hendrik Hertzberg, DEMOCRAT, The New Yorker, April 10, 1970
• Nicholas Gage & Ilias Kulukundris, Report From Greece - Under the Junta, The American Scholar, 1970