![]() ![]() 1Īmid a climate of physical destruction of Greek communities in the Ottoman Empire, Greece entered WW1 in 1917 on the side of the Allies and on after an arrangement with the Allies, arrived at Smyrna. The remainder were made up Jews, Italians, French, British and other nationalities. According to the Consul at Smyrna George Horton, at the time of its destruction, Smyrna had a population of at least 400,000 comprising 165,000 Turks, 150,000 Greeks and 25,000 Armenians. The term Smyrna Holocaust refers to the wholesale slaughter of the Smyrna populace, which at the time was majority Christian, and also to the fire that completely destroyed the city.ĭuring the Ottoman period, the Turks referred to Smyrna as Gâvur İzmir (Infidel Smyrna) due to its large Christian population. The final phase of the Greek Genocide took place at Smyrna in September 1922 when Kemalist forces entered the city and took part in an orgy of looting, rape and massacre that targeted the city's Christian population, primarily Greeks and Armenians. Smyrna ablaze as the HMS Iron Duke is in the harbor. ![]()
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![]() ![]() From Downing Street to Loch Ness, this is a delightful look at the United Kingdom. ![]() Too bad he's unable to couple it with the charm he finds on paper. about Product Details reviews Featuring an all-new cover, New York Times bestseller Bill Brysons irrevent and hilarious journey through the beloved island nation he called home for two decades. He knows the places to explore and bring out the charm that most tourists miss. It's a case of "better than the rest, not as good as it should have been." At least Bryson is willing to show us the "real Britain," not the tourism-centered part. Still, as travelogues go, it's one of the better ones out there. The whole appeal of Bryson is the way he expresses his love for British culture with just enough detachment to be witty, and that is far too absent from this adaptation. Those moments that it does (episode three is the best example of this) are wonderful. He comes off as too bored, too bland.only occasionally does his true love for Britain shine through. Part of the problem is that for a TV presenter, Bryson is a good author. It moves slowly, is nowhere near as funny as his books, and is far too subdued for my taste. That said, this TV adaptation of his most popular book leaves something to be desired. As a fellow American who has spent a few years living in Britain, he captures both cultures with wit and charm. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nor does Kennedy avert her eyes from the Troubles, the era during which her novel is set. But in her first novel, Trespasses, the Irish writer Louise Kennedy doesn’t shy away from either fun or femininity. Of course, this rarity is rooted in old, gendered ideas about literary subject matter: Combat and the romantic separation it can cause are (supposedly) serious fodder for male writers, while flirtation and anticipation-the fun parts of coupling up-are not. War-induced longing is a common fictional occurrence-consider Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient, Sebastian Faulks’s Birdsong, or, to a lesser degree, Ian McEwan’s Atonement-but a vivid, sexy, not-doomed-feeling love story that also takes a war zone as a central subject rather than simply a setting is rarer. Not many novels mix juicy romance and wartime violence. ![]() ![]() Agent: Katelyn Detweiler, Jill Grinberg Literary. Jolly Fish, 12.99 paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-63163-287-7 The fantastically imaginative opener to Bunzl’s Cogheart Adventures series is a steampunk story. ![]() With great style and panache, the novel deftly winds through the intricacies of friendship and moral choice while maintaining a fun edge. Together, they embark on a journey through an England filled with dirigibles, mechanical beings, and a darkness of spirit that neither knew existed. He’s drawn to Lily after he finds her pet mechanical fox, which has been injured. Enter Robert, a 13-year-old clockmaker’s apprentice. When her father mysteriously goes missing and Lily is removed from school by her evil guardian, Madame Verdigris, she must uncover her father’s secret, protect it, and find him. Cogheart by Peter Bunzl 5 114 114 Reviews Write a Review The first in the bestselling Cogheart Adventures series, where mayhem, murder and mystery meet in a gripping Victorian world of fantastical imagination. Thanks to her father’s example, Lily has love and compassion for the seemingly sentient mechanicals that are used as servants. ![]() Victorian-era Lily is always in trouble at the boarding school she attends she’d rather be an air pirate than a proper young woman, and it shows in her adventurous spirit and appreciation of penny dreadfuls. ![]() ![]() The fantastically imaginative opener to Bunzl’s Cogheart Adventures series is a steampunk story with faint echoes of The Little Princess. ![]() |