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Paradise Lost: Smyrna, 1922

Giles Milton

Hardcover | Pages: 426 pages

Rating: 4.19 | 574 Users | 77 Reviews

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Original Title:	Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922, The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance
ISBN:	0465011195 (ISBN13: 9780465011193)
Edition Language:	English

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On Saturday, September 9, 1922, the victorious Turkish cavalry rode into Smyrna, the richest and most cosmopolitan city in the Ottoman Empire. The city's vast wealth created centuries earlier by powerful Levantine dynasties, its factories teemed with Greeks, Armenians, Turks, and Jews. Together, they had created a majority Christian city that was 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 with the aim of restoring a Christian empire in Asia. But by the summer of 1922, the Greeks had been vanquished by Atatürk's armies after three years of warfare. As Greek troops retreated, the non-Muslim civilians of Smyrna assumed that American and European warships would intervene if and when the Turkish cavalry decided to enter the city. But this was not to be.

On September 13, 1922, Turkish troops descended on Smyrna. They rampaged first through the Armenian quarter, and then throughout the rest of the city. They looted homes, raped women, and murdered untold thousands. Turkish soldiers were seen dousing buildings with petroleum. Soon, all but the Turkish quarter of the city was in flames and hundreds of thousands of refugees crowded the waterfront, desperate to escape. The city burned for four days; by the time the embers cooled, more than 100,000 people had been killed and millions left homeless.

Based on eyewitness accounts and the memories of survivors, many interviewed for the first time, Paradise Lost offers a vivid narrative account of one of the most vicious military catastrophes of the modern age.

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Title	:	Paradise Lost: Smyrna, 1922
Author	:	Giles Milton
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 426 pages
Published	:	July 8th 2008 by Basic Books (first published 2008)
Categories	:	History. Nonfiction. War

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The description of the Turkish army's takeover of Smyrna is quite involving. I would have liked to know how the Levantine families, who are the part-protagonists in this account, came to settle in Empire in the first place but the tempo shoots up during the closing chapters. Also, I feel the book's ending was a bit abrupt. We are told that a number of refugees made it to Greece & Malta but that's just about it. Whilst I appreciate the subject is Smyrna it would have been nice to know more of

Some parts of this book will feel quite familiar for those who have read Eugenides' Middlesex novel, or the scholarly "Ionian Vision" on the disastrous Greek campaign in Asia Minor after WWI. Yet this is non-fiction (unlike Middlesex) and easy to read (unlike Ionian Vision). The author clearly focused mainly on English-language sources by the local upper-class Levantine trading families, so other ethnicities and social classes get short shrift. In the end, he manages to paint a vivid picture of

I chose to read this book to augment my research for the novel I'm writing on the Chios Massacre. In addition to my particluar interest, I found this book an excellent explanation and description of one of the major upheavals of the 20th century. A beautiful,wealthy, and cosmopolitan city in Turkey was destroyed, at least 260,000 people were slaughtered, and over 300,000 were refugees that finally escaped from the huge conflagration set by the Turks. Mr. Milton successfully wove together the

What an incredible read. The politics, the social dynamics, the personalities and the precipitating events of the destruction of Smyrna are already staggering to contemplate, but in Milton's hands the events become vivid and almost tangible to the reader. Being of Greek descent, learning this history was of particular significance for me, but anyone who wants a better understanding of the history of 20th century international relations as influenced by the outcomes of World War I, the

The London-based journalist, Giles Milton provides an insightful look into the tragic story of post WWI Smyrna (present-day Izmir, Turkey) in his latest work Paradise Lost. The destruction of the rich, diverse city of Smyrna is a tragic tale of expansionist political goals, mass population exchange, the formulation of modern Turkey, and what became one of largest humanitarian efforts in world history. Located on the Aegean Sea, the ancient cosmopolitan city was overtaken and burned down in 1922

A brilliant account of the Great Catastrophe in Smyrna. Despite the fact that it is not a happy read, it is a mind boggling look at what countries will and will not do at times of turmoil and crisis. My emotions were on a roller coaster the whole time I was reading it. From shame and anger at the Greeks to anger towards the Turks to frustration towards the various allies for their inaction. It is easy to come away despising, even hating the Turks for what they did, but that is only because their

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