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“Beaton did something different. He stripped Byron of our assumptions that he belonged in Greece and would die in Greece for Greek liberty, and asked what he was doing before. I don’t know whether Beaton would agree, but the way I understand what he’s writing, Byron was experiencing some sort of midlife crisis and ennui. Byron’s thinking, ‘I’ve inherited now, I’ve had a very good sex life with both genders. I’ve lived in Italy. I’ve met the Shelleys. My body is not what it used to be. Now what?’” Read more...
The best books on Modern Greek History
Yanni Kotsonis, Historian
Our most recommended books
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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
by Christopher Browning -
On War
by Carl von Clausewitz -
Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman and translated by Robert Chandler -
Stalingrad
by Antony Beevor -
Histories
by Herodotus -
The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)