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Smyrna 1922
Marjorie Housepian Dobkin
其他書名
The Destruction of a City
出版
Kent State University Press
, 1988
主題
History / General
History / Wars & Conflicts / General
History / Europe / Greece
History / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire
Social Science / Minority Studies
Technology & Engineering / Fire Science
ISBN
0873383591
9780873383592
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=rlAvAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
On one level Smyrna 1922 is a modern Greek tragedy replete with the elements of irony and horror. The Greeks, one of the victorious Allied powers during World War 1, were betrayed by their allies and their army driven into the sea at Smyrna by the forces of Mustapha Kemal, an insurgent leader to whom his former enemies had given considerable covert help. There followed an enactment of the week of orgy after the fall of Constantinople in 1453; pillage, rape and massacre culminating, in this instance, in the spectacular destruction by fire of Smyrna (now Izmir), considered an infidel city by the Turks because of its predominantly Greek character and population. Dobkin's study is a definitive work concerning a debacle deliberately soft pedalled and almost expunged from the memory of modern day man in the words of Henry Miller in The Colossus of Maroussi.