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Eric Ambler
An English novelist uncovers a trail of crime in Istanbul - and all roads lead to the mysterious master criminal Dimitrios
English crime novelist Charles Latimer is travelling in Istanbul…
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Mark Mazower
From the author of the greatly praised Dark Continent comes a richly textured social history of the Aegean seaport that has been a crossroads of civilization since the dawn of…
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The history of a bewilderingly exotic city, rarely written about: five hundred years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories of Suleiman the Magnificent to its nadir under Nazi…
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A short history of the Balkans from the Romans to the present, which provides vital historical and cultural background to contemporary Balkan politics and offers the reader a fresh view…
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An account of wartime Greece, exploring the impact of Nazi Occupation upon the lives and values of ordinary people. It seeks to offer a vividly human picture of resistance fighters…
A NEW STATESMAN AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021
‘Deserves to remain the standard treatment of the subject in English for many decades to come’ Roderick Beaton…
Primo Levi
Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to 20th-century atrocity. In this novel, based on a true story, he reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish and Jewish partisans…
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A thrilling history of the revolutionary birth of modern Greece
In the exhausted, repressive years that followed Napoleon’s defeat in 1815, there was one cause that came to galvanize countless…
The role of the police has, from its beginnings, been ambiguous, even janus-faced. This volume focuses on one of its controversial aspects by showing how the police have been utilized…
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A warm and intimate memoir by an acclaimed historian, which explores the twentieth century European struggle through the lives, hopes and dreams of a single family… his own.
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Drawing on an unprecedented variety of sources, Mazower reveals how the Nazis designed, maintained, and ultimately lost their European empire, and offers a chilling vision of the world Hitler would…
A majestic narrative reckoning with the forces that have shaped the nature and destiny of the world’s governing institutions
The story of global cooperation is a tale of dreamers goading…
The great depression of the years between the World Wars is widely held to have led to the collapse of democracy in many countries. This study of Greece, which recovered…
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize * One of The Economist’s top history books of the year
From one of our leading historians, an important new history of the Greek…
Hitler’s empire was the largest, most brutal and most ambitious reshaping of Europe in history. Inspired by imperial legacy of those such as British, Third Reich cast its shadow from…
The end of First World War saw old empires swept away and opportunity to build a better society from the ruins. This title overturns the myth of Europe as a…
In 1815 the shocked and exhausted victors of the decades of fighting that had engulfed Europe for a generation agreed to a new system for keeping the peace. This title…
A useful, important book that reminds us, at the right time, how hard (European unity) has been, and how much care must be taken to avoid the terrible old temptations…
Winner of the Wolfson History Prize, this book sheds light on what has been called the tinderbox of Europe, whose troubles have ignited wider wars for hundreds of years.
A touching photographic journey, captured in stereoscopic glass plates by one member of a prominent family in the Romaniote Jewish community of Ioannina, in north-western Greece. Important historical events unfold…
English crime novelist Charles Latimer is travelling in Istanbul when he makes the acquaintance of police inspector Colonel Haki, from whom he hears of Dimitrios - a criminal. Latimer decides…
Mark M. Mazower
No Enchanted Palace traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood organizations active in the world today. Acclaimed historian…
Extending historical approaches to Greece, this work contains essays that map a social history of Greece in the 1940s and 1950s, a period in which the country grappled - bloodily…
Presents perspectives on modern Greek society and its historical development. This book illuminates issues, such as the way nation-states emerged from empire, the relationship between family and ideological conflict, the…
Twentieth-century Southeastern Europe endured three, separate decades of international and civil war, and was marred in forced migration and wrenching systematic changes. This volume is the result of a yearlong…
This collection offers new insights into the aftermath of the Second World War. Contributors explore key arenas, such as the the re-foundation of the state, its legitimacy and its monopoly…
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Mihail Sebastian
Originally published in Romanian as De doua mii de ani in 1934. Original English-language edition first published by Penguin Books Ltd, London [2016] – Verso title page.
