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Salonica, City of Ghosts : Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430- (05 Edition)
by Mark Mazower  Publisher Comments Salonica, located in northern Greece, was long a fascinating crossroads metropolis of different religions and ethnicities, where Egyptian merchants, Spanish Jews, Orthodox Greeks, Sufi dervishes, and Albanian brigands all rubbed shoulders. Tensions...
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Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-44
by Mark Mazower Publisher Comments This book is the first full exploration of the experience of occupation- from the perspective of those that endured it and from those that imposed it -it tells the stories of resistance fighters and black marketeers, teenage German conscripts and Gestapo...
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Waterloo: In the Footsteps of the Commanders
by Jonathon Gillespie-payne Publisher Comments An original approach to understanding the events that made Waterloo such 'a damned close-run thing'....
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Constantinople 1453: The End of Byzantium (Praeger Illustrated Military History)
by David Nicolle Publisher Comments This title details the epic four-month siege of the city of Constantinople, last vestige of the once mighty Roman and Byzantine Empires. Mehmet 'The Conqueror' led an army of 80,000 men with a massive siege train against the city. Defending were a mere...
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The Struggle for Greece, 1941-1949
by C M Woodhouse Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-316) and index....
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Inventing Paradise
by Edmund Keeley Publisher Comments The radiant light of Greece-its landscape and poetry-as witnessed in the dark years when it was almost extinguished. In the looming shadow of an oppressive dictatorship and imminent world war, George Seferis, George Katsimbalis, and other poets and...
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Eleni
by Nicholas Gage 
Publisher Comments In 1948, as civil war ravaged Greece, children were abducted and sent to communist "camps" inside the Iron Curtain. Eleni Gatzoyiannis, forty-one, defied the traditions of her small village and the terror of the communist insurgents to arrange for the...
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Ancient West & East; V.3 No.2.
by Book News Annotation The latest issue of the biannual devoted to the history and archaeology of the periphery of the Graeco-Roman world offers six articles, two notes, and many reviews of new books. The articles, discuss such topics as Medes in Media, Mesopotamia, and...
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Panorama of the Classical World
by Nigel And Michael Squire Spivey Publisher Comments Lavishly illustrated and featuring the most important developments in recent scholarship, this book takes a new and imaginative approach to the era in which Western civilization was born....
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Ancient West & East; V.5 No.1-2.
by Book News Annotation This final volume of the series published by Brill is a double issue, with eight articles, four notes, and 120 pages of reviews. Article topics include untying the Cretan hieroglyphic knot, the foothills of the northwestern Caucasus in the eighth to...
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Brill's Companion To Thucydides.
by Antonios Rengakos And Antonis Tsakmakis Book News Annotation The first wide-ranging collective work on Thucydides in 38 years, this volume reflects the change in focus during those years from Thucydides' method of investigation and his values to his modes of representation and his thinking. It also registers a...
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The Emerging Euro-Mediterranean System (Europe in Change)
by Dimitris K. Xenakis Publisher Comments This book offers valuable insights into the principal challenges facing the Euro-Mediterranean partnership following the signing of the Barcelona Declaration in 1995. Looking at past European policies towards the region, the authors address questions of...
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Honour, Family and Patronage: A Study of Institutions and Moral Values in a Greek Mountain Community
by J K Campbell Review "Excellent text for the study of kinship."--Elisha Renne, New York University...
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Twice a Stranger: The Mass Expulsions That Forged Modern Greece and Turkey
by Bruce Clark Publisher Comments In the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire following World War I, nearly two million citizens in Turkey and Greece were expelled from homelands. The Lausanne treaty resulted in the deportation of Orthodox Christians from Turkey to Greece and of Muslims...
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Connecting a City to the Sea: The History of the Athenian Long Walls (History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity)
by David H Conwell Book News Annotation Volume 293 in the Mnemosyne Supplementa, this publication studies the Long Walls joining Athens with its harbors, which are universally accepted as symbols of naval imperialism and the crux of a departure from traditional Greek military strategy...
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The Mycenaeans
by Louise Schofield Publisher Comments For almost three thousand years, the Mycenaeans, ancestors of the classical Greeks, lay lost and forgotten beneath the soil of Greece. In 1876, however, a German businessman, Heinrich Schliemann, in his search for the great Mycenaean king Agamemnon and...
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Ancient West & East; V.4 No.2.
by Publisher Comments Ancient West & East is a peer-reviewed (bi-)annual devoted to the study of the history and archaeology of the periphery of the Graeco-Roman world, concentrating on local societies and cultures and their interaction with the Graeco-Roman, Near Eastern...
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Crete (Literary Travel)
by Barry Unsworth Publisher Comments His keen understanding of history and legend...illuminate s his visits. --Publishers Weekly A vivid picture of the island. --Associated Press It is hard to think of anywhere on earth where so many firsts and mosts are crammed into a space so small, Barry...
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Alice
by Hugo Vickers Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [445]-448) and index....
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Ancient West and East; V.3 No.1.
by Book News Annotation Six articles, one in French, anchor the latest volume in the biannual series devoted to the study of the history and archaeology of the periphery of the Graeco-Roman world. Among their topics are the mastering of iron-working by the peoples of the...
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