Recommendations from our site
“The disaster that befell the city shows what can happen when people only think in terms of their own nationality, their own race and their own needs. In 1919, encouraged by British Prime Minster Lloyd George, Greece landed an army in the city” Read more...
Philip Mansel, Historian
“It’s quite an old book – it has been reissued but it originally came out about 1973. It’s about the attempts of the Greeks to take over Anatolia in 1919. This was his doctorate, and it’s terribly well written. He’s been through all the British and the Greek documents, which can’t have been easy.” Read more...
The best books on Turkish History
Norman Stone, Historian
Our most recommended books
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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
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On War
by Carl von Clausewitz -
Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman and translated by Robert Chandler -
Histories
by Herodotus -
The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding) -
Augustine of Hippo
by Peter Brown
