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Not Even My Name: A True Story
Thea Halo
Picador
Picador
Not Even My Name is a rare eyewitness account of the horrors of a little-known, often denied genocide, in which hundreds of thousands of Armenian and Pontic Greek minorities in Turkey were killed during and after World War I. As told by Sano Halo...
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Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a City
Marjorie Housepian Dobkin
Newmark Press
Newmark Press
In September, 1922, Mustapha Kemal {Ataturk}, the victorious revolutionary ruler of Turkey, led his troops into Smyrna (now Izmir) a predominantly Christian city, as a flotilla of 27 Allied warships-- including three American destroyers-- looked on....
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A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility
Taner Akcam
Holt Paperbacks
Holt Paperbacks
“The definitive account of the organized destruction of the Ottoman Armenians . . . No future discussion of the history will be able to ignore this brilliant book.”—Orhan Pamuk Beginning in 1915, under the cover of a world war, some one...
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Twice a Stranger: The Mass Expulsions that Forged Modern Greece and Turkey
Bruce Clark
Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press
In the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire following World War I, nearly two million citizens in Turkey and Greece were expelled from homelands. The Lausanne treaty resulted in the deportation of Orthodox Christians from Turkey to Greece and of...
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New Turkish Republic: Turkey As a Pivotal State in the Muslim World
Graham Fuller
United States Institute of Peace Press
United States Institute of Peace Press
The first in a series of volumes that examine pivotal states in the Muslim world, this timely work explores how, after a long period of isolation, Turkey is becoming a major player in Middle Eastern politics once again. In fact, by acting...
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Ottoman Centuries
Lord Kinross
Harper Perennial
Harper Perennial
The Ottoman Empire began in 1300 under the almost legendary Osman I, reached its apogee in the sixteenth century under Suleiman the Magnificent, whose forces threatened the gates of Vienna, and gradually diminished thereafter until Mehmed VI was...
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The Leopard's Tale: Revealing the Mysteries of Catalhoyuk
Ian Hodder
Thames & Hudson
Thames & Hudson
A firsthand account of the discoveries at this seminal ancient site in Turkey, one of the first farming settlements in history. Çatalhöyük, in central Turkey, became internationally famous in the 1960s when an ancient town—thought to be the...
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The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor (Modern Library Classics)
W.M. Jr Thackston
Modern Library
Modern Library
Both an official chronicle and the highly personal memoir of the emperor Babur (1483–1530), The Baburnama presents a vivid and extraordinarily detailed picture of life in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India during the late-fifteenth and...
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Constantinople: Capital of Byzantium
Jonathan Harris
Hambledon & London
Hambledon & London
During the early Middle Ages, travellers to the East returned with stories of a place called Miklagarth, a city so vast that its churches, palaces and monasteries covered the land and so rich that its ruler could scatter bagfuls of gold among his...
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Paul: A Critical Life
Jerome Murphy-O'Connor
Oxford University Press, USA
Oxford University Press, USA
Traditionally the Acts of the Apostles has provided the framework for biographies of the Apostle Paul. In recent years, however, the historical value of the Acts has come into question. Many scholars argue that, despite the accuracy of many details,...
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