Giles Milton is an historian gifted with the common touch and in this account, which he unfolds through the memories of the survivors, he brings vividly to life the terrible fate that was inflicted in 1922 on Smyrna, the richest and most cosmopolitan city in the Ottoman Empire. I found it almost unbearably harrowing and heartbreaking, not a book for the faint hearted.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 50 March 2009 ) |
