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Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922 - the Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance

By Giles Milton

Book information

Publisher
Sceptre
Year
2009
ISBN
034083787X, 9780340837870
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
517 kB (529272 bytes)
Pages
426\0
Time added
2020-04-08 16:42:35

Description

On Saturday 9th September, 1922, the victorious Turkish cavalry rode into Smyrna, the richest and most cosmopolitan city in the Ottoman Empire. What happened over the next two weeks must rank as one of the most compelling human dramas of the twentieth century. Almost two million people were caught up in a disaster of truly epic proportions. PARADISE LOST is told with the narrative verve that has made Giles Milton a bestselling historian. It unfolds through the memories of the survivors, many of them interviewed for the first time, and the eyewitness accounts of those who found themselves caught up in one of the greatest catastrophes of the modern age.

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