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Title: Macedonia and Greece: The Struggle to Define a New Balkan Nation by John Shea ISBN: 0-7864-0228-8 Publisher: McFarland & Company Pub. Date: 01 February, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $55.00

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Average Customer Rating: 2.85 (13 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Boomerang for the Athens policy-pure historic truth.
Comment: No other book manages to expose Greek falsification of Macedonian history with such argumentated foundations.Synthesising the origin of Greek sudden "macedonistic renessance" author displayed incontroversial evidence:archaeologic,linguistic,historical-from antiquity up to modern times-that Macedonia had no ties whatsoever with Hellenism,thus distroying every claim Athens has made toward this territory. Greek policy equals science fiction: that todays greek-speaking population of Aegean Macedonia is made from in situ descedants of ancient Macedonians.For this purpose official Athens didn't restrained from mobilising enormous propaganda machinery to preach to the World that "there ain't more authenthic Greece than Macedonia".Every important aspect of Macedonian Question is highlited here:antagonism between ancient Macedonians and Greeks,how latter stated innumerious times that the former were barbars(non-Greeks),continious existence of Macedonian identity within Macedonia-distinct from Greek,as well as irational attitude of official Athens towards Macedonians,that culminated in several expulsions that ethnicaly cleansed occupied part of Macedonia and populated its territory with Greeks from Turkey and Armenia,together with account about todays position of Macedonians in this "Greek" province-denial of their very existence.Greeks should read this book to see how irational are their claims on Macedonia and how much are they themselves compromised from these.

Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent analysis of Macedonian issues
Comment: This book examines all aspects of the dispute between Macedonia and Greece ranging from ancient history to the present. John Shea analyzes such topics as the Greek government's refusal to recognize its large ethnic Macedonian minority, the Greek myth of ethnic purity, and the Republic of Macedonia's struggle for international recognition. This is yet another example of a non-Macedonian author being able to conduct research and come to his own conclusion that Greek claims about Macedonia simply are not valid. Highly recommended for people searching for a non-biased examination of Macedonia.

Rating: 1
Summary: CASE CLOSED
Comment: Consider the world as your country, with common laws, governed by men of merit, regardless of race. I do not distinguish between Greeks and barbarians, as do the narrow-minded. I am not interested in the country or race of origin of people. I only distinguish people according to their virtues. To me every virtuous foreigner is Greek and each non-virtuous Greek is worse than a barbarian.

- Megalos Alexandros

History has been written and the facts are plain. To deny Truth is an indication of weakness and inferiority. Case Closed.