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The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924 by Benny Morris 9780674916456
£32.66A reappraisal of the giant massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire, and then the Turkish Republic, against their Christian minorities.Between 1894 and 1924, three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region's Christian minorities,... -
Turkish-Greek Relations: Foreign Policy in a Securitisation Framework by Cihan Dizdaro?lu 9781474492102
RRP: £85.00£69.28A critical perspective on the vicious cycle of improvement and deterioration in Greek-Turkish relations Provides trends of securitisation and desecuritisation to present the political nature of securitisation by either the military bureaucrats or... -
Venizelos: The Making of a Greek Statesman 1864-1914 by Michael Llewellyn-Smith 9781787381421
RRP: £30.00£26.95Eleftherios Venizelos (1864-1936) was the outstanding Greek statesman of the first half of the twentieth century. Michael Llewellyn-Smith traces his early years, political apprenticeship in Crete, and energetic role in that island's emancipation from... -
Hide & Seek: The Story of a Wartime Agent by Xan Fielding 9781589880849
RRP: £17.99£17.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589880849Author Xan FieldingFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Paul Dry Books, IncPublisher Paul Dry Books, IncWeight(grams) 280g -
Ali Pasha, Lion of Ioannina: The Remarkable Life of the Balkan Napoleon' by Eugenia Russell 9781473877207
RRP: £25.00£18.02At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the life of a petty tyrant in an obscure corner of the Ottoman Empire became the stuff of legend. What propelled this cold-blooded archetype of Oriental despotism, grandly known as the Lion of Ioannina and the... -
Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece by Devin E. Naar 9781503600089
RRP: £23.99£19.56Touted as the "Jerusalem of the Balkans," the Mediterranean port city of Salonica (Thessaloniki) was once home to the largest Sephardic Jewish community in the world. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the city's incorporation into Greece in 1912... -
The Last Greek by Christian Cameron 9781409176596
RRP: £20.99£15.34Few writers are better at conjuring up a vision of Ancient Greece' THE TIMES* * * * * * *210BCE. The most powerful empires in the world brawl over the spoils of a declawed Greece.Philopoemen has a vision to end the chaos and anarchy that consumes his... -
The Greek Revolution: A Critical Dictionary by Paschalis M Kitromilides
RRP: £33.95£27.81Winner of the 2022 London Hellenic PrizeOn the bicentennial of the Greek Revolution, an essential guide to the momentous war for independence of the Greeks from the Ottoman Empire.The Greek war for independence (1821-1830) often goes missing from... -
Wandering in Byzantine Thessaloniki (English language edition) by Eftychia Kourkoutidou-Nikolaidou
RRP: £21.50£17.60Thessaloniki, the most important city in the Byzantine empire after Constaninople, experienced periods of great economic prosperity and cultural and artistic flowering that created monuments of great importance in the development of Byzantine... -
The Forgotten Front: The Macedonian Campaign, 1915-1918 by Jon B. Lewis
RRP: £29.95£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113733Author Jon B. LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Armies of the Hellenistic States 323 BC to AD 30: History, Organization and Equipment by Gabriele Esposito 9781526730299
RRP: £19.99£15.88This book provides a complete and detailed analysis of the organization and equipment employed by the armies of the Hellenistic States. After Alexander the Great's death in 323 BC, his immense Macedonian empire was divided between his ambitious generals,... -
Argo by Mark Knowles
RRP: £10.99£8.43You've read the myth of the Golden Fleece. Now find out how it really was for Jason and the Argonauts in this gripping reimagining of the famous Ancient Greek tale, and first book in the breathtaking Blades of Bronze series. Perfect for fans of Madeline... -
Essence and Energies: Being and Naming God in St Gregory Palamas by Tikhon Pino
RRP: £130.00£112.11St. Gregory Palamas (ca. 1296-1357) is among the most well-known and celebrated theologians of late Byzantium. This book provides a comprehensive account of the essence-energies distinction across his twenty-five treatises and letters written over a... -
Dinner with Persephone: Travels in: Travels in by Patricia Storace 9780679744788
RRP: £20.00£14.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679744788Author Patricia StoraceFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 339gDimensions(mm) 207mm *... -
On Spartan Wings: The Royal Hellenic Air Force in World War Two by Carr, John 9781399019750
RRP: £14.99£10.95Rarely has an air force gone into combat as poorly prepared and outgunned as the Royal Hellenic Air Force had to when Mussolini's Italy dragged Greece into war on 28 October 1940. Without warning, as Italian forces poured over the frontier from Albania,... -
The Long Range Desert Group in the Aegean by Brendan O'Carroll 9781526777379
RRP: £25.00£17.62Shortly after the invasion of Sicily and to distract German attention from the Italian campaign, Churchill ordered the occupation of the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean. The Long Range Desert Group, retraining in Lebanon, were now part of Raiding... -
Greece and Crete 1941 by Christopher Buckley 9789602260418 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99£2.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789602260418Author Christopher BuckleyFormat PaperbackImprint Efstathiadis GroupPublisher Efstathiadis GroupWeight(grams) 310g -
Flame of Miletus: The Birth of Science in Ancient Greece (and How It Changed the World) by John Freely 9781788312455 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.26Miletus: one of the wealthiest and most important towns in ancient Greece. It was here, on the Aegean coast of Asia Minor, in the 6th century BC, that the great traditions of Greek science and philosophy sparked into life, setting in motion a chain of... -
Flame of Miletus: The Birth of Science in Ancient Greece (and How It Changed the World) by John Freely 9781788312455
RRP: £12.99£9.79Miletus: one of the wealthiest and most important towns in ancient Greece. It was here, on the Aegean coast of Asia Minor, in the 6th century BC, that the great traditions of Greek science and philosophy sparked into life, setting in motion a chain of... -
History of the Byzantine Empire, 324-1453 v. 2 by Alexander Vasiliev 9780299809263
RRP: £24.95£23.73"This is the revised English translation from the original work in Russian of the history of the Great Byzantine Empire. It is the most complete and thorough work on this subject. From it we get a wonderful panorama of the events and developments of... -
Alexander The Great And The Hellenistic Age by Peter Green
RRP: £9.99£6.80A masterly narrative survey of three centuries, from Alexander's conquest and empire to the triumph of Rome.The book begins with the personality and achievements of Alexander the Great, and continues with the military and political violence of the... -
State-Nationalisms in the Ottoman Empire, Greece and Turkey: Orthodox and Muslims, 1830-1945 by Benjamin C. Fortna
RRP: £49.99£43.50Tracing the emergence of minorities and their institutions from the late nineteenth century to the eve of the Second World War, this book provides a comparative study of government policies and ideologies of two states towards minority populations living... -
Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire by Bernard Lewis
£29.47On Tuesday, May 29, 1453, the young Sultan Mehemmed, known to history as -the Conqueror, - launched the final assault against the walls of Constantinople and added that imperial capital, as coping stone; to the Empire that his fathers had conquered. As... -
History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides 9780486817194
RRP: £16.99£11.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486817194Author Thucydides ThucydidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
In the Footsteps of the Gods: Travellers to Greece and the Quest for the Hellenic Ideal by David Constantine
RRP: £11.99£9.08In the Footsteps of the Gods traces the ways in which the constantly changing ideal image of ancient Greece, its art, politics and culture, inspired those who travelled there. Gladiators and goddesses, philosophers and poets, epic battles and... -
Theophrastus: "Characters", "Herodas Mimes", "Sophron" and Other Mime Fragments by Theophrastus
RRP: £24.95£23.39Dramatis personae.This volume collects important examples of Greek literary portraiture. The Characters of Theophrastus consists of thirty fictional sketches of men who are each dominated by a single fault, such as arrogance, boorishness, or superstition... -
Talking Until Nightfall by Isaac Matarasso
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Whoever listens to a witness, becomes a witness.' - Elie Wiesel When Nazi occupiers arrived in Greece in 1941, it was the beginning of a horror that would reverberate through generations. In the city of Salonica (Thessaloniki), almost 50,000 Jews... -
The Struggle for Greece, 1941-1949 by C. M. Woodhouse
RRP: £25.00£22.03As commander of the Allied Military Mission to the Greek guerrillas in Greece in 1943-4, C.M. Woodhouse has to hold an uneasy balance between the communist and government sides. Against a background of conflicting communist doctrine, shifting foreign... -
Half the Perfect World: Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra: 1955-1964 by Paul Genoni
£41.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925523096Author Tanya DalziellFormat HardbackPage Count 456Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing -
Armies of Ancient Greece Circa 500 to 338 BC: History, Organization & Equipment by Gabriele Esposito 9781526751898
RRP: £25.00£20.56Conflict was rife among the Greeks of the Classical period, including some of the most famous wars and battles of the whole ancient period, such as the defeat of the Persians at Marathon, the Spartans' heroic last stand at Thermopylae, the gruelling... -
The Jewish Community of Salonica: History, Memory, Identity by Bea Lewkowicz
RRP: £20.00£19.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853035800Author Bea LewkowiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
Olympic Airways: A History by Graham M. Simons 9781473883536
£34.34Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Hitler's Island War by Julie Peakman
£49.90*Highly Commended by the British Records Association for the 2019 Janette Harley Prize* In September 1943, at the height of World War II, the Aegean island of Leros became the site of the most pivotal battle of the Dodecanese campaign as the British... -
History's Spoiled Children: The Formation of the Modern Greek State by Kostas Kostis
RRP: £30.00£26.95History's Spoiled Children is the story of a small Ottoman province and its transformation into a modern European state. In some respects, the challenges to the formation of the Greek state could be likened to those encountered by the Western world in... -
Crossing the Aegean: An Appraisal of the 1923 Compulsory Population Exchange Between Greece and Turkey by Renee Hirschon 9781571815620
RRP: £27.95£22.58"This volume is a long overdue endeavour to tackle the thorny and delicate issue of the compulsory population exchange ...The argumentative force of the volume lies in the careful analysis of the contradictory and ambiguous ramifications of the... -
The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1453 to 1768: The Ottoman Empire by Molly Greene
RRP: £32.00£26.44Provides a nuanced picture of the Greek experience in the Ottoman empire. The period of Ottoman rule in Greek history has undergone a dramatic reassessment in recent years. Long reviled as four hundred years of unrelieved slavery and barbarity ('the... -
Freedom and Civilization Among the Greeks by A J Festugiere 9780915138982
RRP: £16.00£12.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780915138982Author A J FestugiereFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Pickwick Publications,U.S.Publisher Pickwick Publications,U.S.Weight(grams) 167g -
The Turkish War of Independence: A Military History, 1919–1923 Edward J. Erickson 9798765130124
£29.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765130124Author Edward J. EricksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA -
The A to Z of Modern Greece by Dimitris Keridis 9780810876484
RRP: £45.00£39.49Located on the southern-most tip of the Balkan peninsula in Europe's southeast, Greece is a small country of some 11 million people. And while few people have a longer history than the Greeks, Modern Greece is a fairly young country, having been founded... -
Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation by Roderick Beaton 9780226809793
RRP: £21.00£16.87For many, “Greece” is synonymous with “ancient Greece,” the civilization that gave us much that defines Western culture today. But, how did Greece come to be so powerfully attached to the legacy of the ancients in the first place and then define an...