Paradise Lost: Smyrna, 1922 by Giles Milton

Paradise Lost: Smyrna, 1922

Giles Milton

426 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative slow-paced
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On Saturday, September 9, 1922, the victorious Turkish cavalry rode into Smyrna, the richest and most cosmopolitan city in the Ottoman Empire. The city's vast wealth created centuries earlier by powerful Levantine dynasties, its factories teemed w...

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