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Book:Name: 1948-03-9670072-Smyrna-Tenn--104-
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Description:Title: 1948-03-9670072-Smyrna-Tenn--104-
Author: Richard W. Reinhardt
Language: angielski
Year: 1971
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Publisher: Wydawnictwo: Harper & Row
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Total pages: 9
Download from RapidGatorOn May 15, 1919, under the protection of the British, French, and American fleets, a Greek army disembarked in the harbor of Smyrna and occupied the town. Smyrna was Greek Premier Venizelos' reward for having finally brought Greece into the War on the Allied side, and some thought its acquisition might even mark the opening of a new chapter of Greek expansion. Three and a half years later these dreams were shattered; the Greeks' eastward advance had been halted by Mustapha Kemal Pasha at Sakarya and in August 1922, the Turkish counterattack was launched and proved devastatingly successful. Now it was the turn of the Turks, in hot pursuit of the remnants of the disintegrating Greek army, to occupy Smyrna. On September 13, 1922, in the midst of the carnage, a great fire broke out which destroyed more than three-fifths of the town.
Such is the historical framework within which Richard Reinhardt's fictional and historical characters move. There is the Trigonis family, prosperous Smyrniot Greeks, whose beau monde is a provincial imitation of a European model observed from afar. For Christos Trigonis the Greek landing is a partial realization of his yearning to see Imperial Byzantium, the Red Apple, reborn. His daughter, Eleni, waits, hoping against hope that Dimitris Kalapothakis, the young lieutenant in the Greek army who has asked for her hand, will prove to be the man of her dreams. And George, Christos' seventeen-year-old son who bears the weight of his father's martial ambitions, nervously anticipates the moment when he will have to prove his manhood in battle.
For Abdullah and Kenan, sons of Hilmi Pasha, the Greeks are alien invaders. Kenan has a simple answer: armed resistance, implacable hostility. His path leads him eventually to Ankara and a command in Mustapha Kemal's army. For Abdullah, however, the choices are less clear-cut. Corrupted, perhaps, by his German education, distracted by his passion for Eleni Trigonis, he wavers uneasily between the Greek and Turkish camps, an uncertain apostle of coexistence.
Smyrna, Athens, Constantinople, and Ankara; Venizelos, Mustapha Kemal, General Hadjianestis; the great
battles and the political intrigues; the flavor of a moment of history are vividly captured and reenacted in this splendid book.
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