My Lists
Featured Lists
Paradise lost
Smyrna, 1922
By Milton, Giles
- ISBN
- 978-0-46501-119-3
- Publisher
- New York : Basic Books, c2008.
REVIEWS
Library Journal
Reviewed on July 15, 2008
At the beginning of the 20th century, Smyrna was the most vibrant, cosmopolitan city in the Ottoman Empire. Home to an overwhelming population of Greeks, Armenians, and wealthy Levantine business owners, this Turkish city was a multicultural model of peaceful cohabitation. Yet the advent of World War I and increasing sectarian tension transformed this Ottoman "paradise" into a war zone long after the war official...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
