An edition of Paradise lost: Smyrna, 1922 (2008)

Paradise lost

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An edition of Paradise lost: Smyrna, 1922 (2008)

Paradise lost

Smyrna, 1922

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Smyrna was the richest and most cosmopolitan city in the Ottoman Empire, its vast wealth created over centuries. Its factories teemed with Greeks, Armenians, Turks, and Jews--a majority Christian city unique in the Islamic world. But to the Turkish nationalists, Smyrna was a city of infidels. In the aftermath of the First World War and with the support of the Great Powers, Greece had invaded Turkey. But by the summer of 1922, as Greek troops retreated, the non-Muslim civilians of Smyrna assumed that American and European warships would intervene if the Turks entered the city. Then, on September 13, 1922, Turkish troops descended. They rampaged first through the Armenian quarter, and then throughout the rest of the city. They looted, raped, and murdered thousands. Soon, all but the Turkish quarter of the city was in flames and hundreds of thousands of refugees crowded the waterfront. The city burned for four days; more than 100,000 people were killed and millions left homeless. Based on eyewitness accounts and the memories of survivors, this book offers a vivid narrative account of one of the most vicious military catastrophes of the modern age--From publisher description.

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Basic Books
Language
English
Pages
426

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New York, NY

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Library of Congress
DF845.53.I94 M55 2008

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Pagination
426 p.:\bill. cm.
Number of pages
426

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Open Library
OL20962069M
Internet Archive
paradiselostsmyr00milt
ISBN 10
0465011195
ISBN 13
9780465011193
LCCN
2008921306
OCLC/WorldCat
209637228
Library Thing
5269689
Goodreads
3271565

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