Greece

A 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,...

A 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...

Eleftherios 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...

Apologies 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

At 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...

Touted 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...

Few 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...

Winner 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...

Thessaloniki, 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...

Apologies 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

This 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,...

You'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...

St. 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...

Apologies 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 *...

Rarely 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,...

Shortly 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...

Apologies 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

Miletus: 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...

Miletus: 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...

"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...

A 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...

Tracing 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...

On 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...

Apologies 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 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...

Dramatis 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...

'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...

As 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...

Apologies 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

Conflict 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...

Apologies 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)...

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*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 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...

"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...

Provides 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

Located 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...

For 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...