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Greece : a Traveler's Literary Companion (97 Edition) by Artemis (ed.) Leontis Publisher Comments Discover Greece--a country that has inspired centuries of travel--through the best modern writers. Against a superb landscape of mountains, beaches, villages, cities, and ruins, all bathed in the rich light of the Mediterranean, these 24 stories draw... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Greek War of Independence: The Struggle for Freedom from Ottoman Oppression and the Birth of the Modern Greek Nation by David Brewer Publisher Comments The Greek War of Independence is a masterful work--the first comprehensive study in thirty years--of one of the most heroic and bloody struggles for independence any people has ever waged. David Brewer has captured this period of world history... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution #01: The Broken Olive Branch: Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and the Quest for Peace in Cyprus: The Impasse of Ethnonationalism by Harry Anastasiou Book News Annotation At the heart of the protracted conflict on Cyprus, argues Anastasiou (international peace and conflict studies, Portland State U.)--who has personal experience with the conflict as a child--is the ethnic nationalism of Greek and Turkish Cypriots and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Panigyri by Alison Cadbury Publisher Comments On one dark blue midnight in the late summer of 1971, I climbed down the ladder of the Evangelistria, a rusty old tub of a ship, and set foot on the soil of Paros, a medium-size island in the Aegean Sea. I had been drawn to the island by pictures of many-... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ill Met by Moonlight by W Stanley Moss Publisher Comments In 1944 British commando W. Stanley Moss hatches his most daring adventure of all: to kidnap the Nazi General Kriepe, commander of the Sevastopol Division in Crete, and spirit him back to British-occupied Egypt. This is his story. From the split-second... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Greece, the Hidden Centuries: Turkish Rule from the Fall of Constantinople to Greek Independence by David Brewer Publisher Comments For almost 400 years, between the fall of Constantinople and the Greek War of Independence, the history of Greece is shrouded in mystery, distorted by Greek writers and begging the question: What was life really like for the Greeks under Ottoman rule... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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Athens: A Portrait of the City in Its Gold Age by Christian Meier Publisher Comments A lively and accessible history of Athens's rise to greatness, from one of the foremost classical historians. The definitive account of Athens in the age of Pericles, Christian Meier's gripping study begins with the Greek triumph over Persia at the... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Cyprus Problem: What Everyone Needs to Know by James Ker Lindsay Publisher Comments For nearly 60 years--from its uprising against British rule in the 1950s, to the bloody civil war between Greek and Turkish Cypriots in the 1960s, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in the 1970s, and the United Nation's ongoing 30-year effort to reunite the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Crete (National Geographic Directions) by Barry Unsworth Synopsis The Booker Prize-winning novelist recounts his journeys through Crete, capturing the rich history of the island, the complex influences that have shaped Cretan culture, the island's rugged landscape, and the people of Crete.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Broken Olive Branch: Vol. II: Nationalism Versus Europeanization by Harry Anastasiou Book News Annotation In his previous The Broken Olive Branch: The Impasse of Ethnonationalism, Anastasiou (international peace and conflict studies, Portland State U.) explored the role of the ethnonationalism of Greek and Turkish Cypriots (and their outside sponsors) in... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood: Passages to Nationhood in Greek Macedonia, 1870-1990 by Anastas Karakasidou Publisher Comments Deftly combining archival sources with evocative life histories, Anastasia Karakasidou brings welcome clarity to the contentious debate over ethnic identities and nationalist ideologies in Greek Macedonia. Her vivid and detailed account demonstrates that... (read more) List Price $41.50 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Most Excellent and Famous History of the Most Renowned Knight Amadis of Greece, Surnamed the Knight by Amadis Of Greece Publisher Comments This work presents the history of Amadis of Greece, son to Lisvart of Greece and the fair Onoloria of Trebisond, representing his education in the court of King Magadan, his conquering of the defended mountain, his combat with his grandfather the Emperor... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $6.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Athens, a History: From Ancient City to Modern Ideal Publisher Comments As Waterfield shows, the memory of Athens' glorious past-even if that memory is a myth-has inspired generations, and offers vital lessons for the current era.... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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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... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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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... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Greek File by William Abranowicz Publisher Comments A stunning collection by William Abranowicz, The Greek File captures the essence of Greece-an alluring country where life itself is stripped down to its most essential components and the ordinary becomes extraordinary. From a single white cloud floating... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Captain Corelli's Island: Cephallonia by Andy Harris Publisher Comments A photographic celebration of the island featured in Louis de Bernieres' phenomenal bestselling novel, "Captain Corelli's Mandolin".... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Athens by Klaus H Carl Publisher Comments An ancient city that is among the best-known and most-visited in our own time, the capital of Greece contains much that is fascinating, including many archaeological treasures. Myth has it that King Cecrops was casting round for a name to call his new... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Aegean Light by Nick Melidonis Publisher Comments The Greece that emerges from the images in these pages is a celebration of the light and of a people who truly represent the spirit of the ancient games. From one of Australia's foremost travel and landscape photographers is this beautiful exploration of... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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