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 in the latter was held partly responsible for his country’s defeat and loss of territory. After being court-martialled for disobeying orders, Prince Andrew and his family, including his son Philip, later Duke of Edinburgh, were banished from Greece. Andrew died in exile 1944. Towards Disaster, an account of the war and a defence of his actions, was published in 1930.