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Title: The Greek War of Independence by Peter H. Paroulakis ISBN: 0-9590894-1-1 Publisher: Hellenic International Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Nice graphics; one-dimentional text
Comment: Well, as a Greek whose family fought in the Greek War of Independence, I liked this book for the graphics.
The text was simplistic, but this is a good coffeehouse book, not a comprehensive book on history. Thus somewhat glossed over were Russian and British military help. But overall a pretty good book for the paintings.
Rating: 5
Summary: Gorgeous graphics
Comment: This is a book for the coffee table and it makes no pretense to being scholarly or historical-analytic, even though the text is not at all bad.
What is really exciting about this publication is that it brings together many of the classical paintings that depict various scenes - battles, retreats, confrontations - that took place during Greece's struggle for independence from the Ottoman Empire.
There are also some fine portraits of many important military figures, politicians, and philhellenes. Most of the original paintings can be seen in Athens at the National Art Museum, the National Historical Museum, or the Benaki Museum. For at least one, though, you will have to go to Paris.
While I suppose art critics and historians would consider most of these paintings to be of only limited artistic merit, I personally find them - well, most of them - gorgeous. Some are very touching: sad reminders of how the Greeks lived under the Turkish yoke. In one a young boy is being taken from his parents by a government official in charge of the infamous "boy tax." In another an Orthodox priest is teaching a group of youngsters in one of the "secret schools" while an armed guard watches over them. The paintings that show church hierarchs in ceremonial robes are especially beautiful and those depicting naval battles are glorious.
This book could be recommended to anyone who enjoys looking at beautiful things and in particular to those who also have an interest in the history of modern Greece.
Rating: 5
Summary: A hope for those who had none
Comment: Confessing an unchallenged verbosity, "The Greek War of Independence" rewards the young historians with several artifices necessary in understanding the historic sensibilities of the Balkan nations. Proving honesty and discernment, the author assails in vouchsafing a deserving credit upon the famous Greeks responsible for doing their best in keeping the Islamic forced conversion away from Eastern Europe as much as possible. Healing and yet opening long forgotten wounds of history, the book is a reminder about the suffering of several nations, enslaved for centuries under the Ottoman yoke.
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Title: The Greek War of Independence: The Struggle for Freedom from the Ottoman Oppression and the Birth of the Modern Greek Nation by David Brewer ISBN: 1585673951 Publisher: Overlook Press Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Modern Greece: A Short History by C. M. Woodhouse ISBN: 0571197949 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a City by Marjorie Housepian Dobkin, Marjorie Housepian Dobkin, Majorie Housepian Dobkin ISBN: 0966745108 Publisher: New Mark Pr Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Not Even My Name by Thea Halo ISBN: 0312277016 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-44 by Mark Mazower ISBN: 0300089236 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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