Paradise Lost : The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance

Author: Milton, Giles

Greece

Published on 28 May 2009 by John Murray Press (John Murray Publishers Ltd) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 464 pages, 3 B&W illustrated maps and 2x 8pp B&W picture sections - integrated onto text paper for s
197 x 129 x 27 | 326g

On Saturday 9th September, 1922, the victorious Turkish cavalry rode into Smyrna, the richest and most cosmopolitan city in the Ottoman Empire. What happened over the next two weeks must rank as one of the most compelling human dramas of the twentieth century. Almost two million people were caught up in a disaster of truly epic proportions.

PARADISE LOST is told with the narrative verve that has made Giles Milton a bestselling historian. It unfolds through the memories of the survivors, many of them interviewed for the first time, and the eyewitness accounts of those who found themselves caught up in one of the greatest catastrophes of the modern age.