Smyrna Nineteen Twenty-Two
Author | : Marjorie Housepian |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780571101085 |
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Author | : Marjorie Housepian |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780571101085 |
Author | : Marjorie Housepian Dobkin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780966745108 |
In September, 1922, Mustapha Kemal {Ataturk}, the victorious revolutionary ruler of Turkey, led his troops into Smyrna (now Izmir) a predominantly Christian city, as a flotilla of 27 Allied warships-- including three American destroyers-- looked on. The Turks soon proceeded to indulge in an orgy of pillage, rape and slaughter that the Western powers anxious to protect their oil and trade interests in Turkey, condoned by their silence and refusal to intervene. Turkish forces then set fire to the legendary city and totally destroyed it. There followed a massive cover-up by tacit agreement of the Western Allies who had defeated Turkey and Germany during World War I. By 1923 Smyrna's demise was all but expunged from historical memory.
Author | : Constantine G. Hatzidimitriou |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Genocide |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Niki Karavasilis |
Publisher | : Dorrance Publishing |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2010-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1434952975 |
Author | : Giles Milton |
Publisher | : John Murray |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2011-10-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1444731793 |
On Saturday 9th September, 1922, the victorious Turkish cavalry rode into Smyrna, the richest and most cosmopolitan city in the Ottoman Empire. What happened over the next two weeks must rank as one of the most compelling human dramas of the twentieth century. Almost two million people were caught up in a disaster of truly epic proportions. PARADISE LOST is told with the narrative verve that has made Giles Milton a bestselling historian. It unfolds through the memories of the survivors, many of them interviewed for the first time, and the eyewitness accounts of those who found themselves caught up in one of the greatest catastrophes of the modern age.
Author | : Giles Milton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Greco-Turkish War, 1921-1922 |
ISBN | : 9780340962343 |
On Saturday 9th September, 1922, the victorious Turkish cavalry rode into Smyrna, the richest and most cosmopolitan city in the Ottoman Empire. What happened over the next two weeks must rank as one of the most compelling human dramas of the twentieth century. Almost two million people were caught up in a disaster of truly epic proportions. PARADISE LOST is told with the narrative verve that has made Giles Milton a bestselling historian. It unfolds through the memories of the survivors, many of them interviewed for the first time, and the eyewitness accounts of those who found themselves caught up in one of the greatest catastrophes of the modern age.
Author | : Marjorie Housepian Dobkin |
Publisher | : New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Benny Morris |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 673 |
Release | : 2019-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 067491645X |
A Financial Times Book of the Year A Foreign Affairs Book of the Year A Spectator Book of the Year “A landmark contribution to the study of these epochal events.” —Times Literary Supplement “Brilliantly researched and written...casts a careful eye upon the ghastly events that took place in the final decades of the Ottoman empire, when its rulers decided to annihilate their Christian subjects...Hitler and the Nazis gleaned lessons from this genocide that they then applied to their own efforts to extirpate Jews.” —Jacob Heilbrun, The Spectator Between 1894 and 1924, three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region’s Christian minorities. By 1924, the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, once nearly a quarter of the population, had been reduced to 2 percent. Most historians have treated these waves as distinct, isolated events, and successive Turkish governments presented them as an unfortunate sequence of accidents. The Thirty-Year Genocide is the first account to show that all three were actually part of a single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolia’s Christian population. Despite the dramatic swing from the Islamizing autocracy of the sultan to the secularizing republicanism of the post–World War I period, the nation’s annihilationist policies were remarkably constant, with continual recourse to premeditated mass killing, homicidal deportation, forced conversion, and mass rape. And one thing more was a constant: the rallying cry of jihad. While not justified under the teachings of Islam, the killing of two million Christians was effected through the calculated exhortation of the Turks to create a pure Muslim nation. “A subtle diagnosis of why, at particular moments over a span of three decades, Ottoman rulers and their successors unleashed torrents of suffering.” —Bruce Clark, New York Times Book Review