Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922, The Destruction Of Islam's City Of Tolerance by Giles Milton

Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922, The Destruction Of Islam's City Of Tolerance

Giles Milton

426 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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On Saturday, September 9, 1922, the victorious Turkish cavalry rode into Smyrna. The richest city in the Ottoman Empire, Smyrna's population was primarily Christian, unique in the Islamic world. But to Turkish nationalists, Smyrna was a city of in...

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