Ionian vision : Greece in Asia Minor, 1919-1922 (edition 2005)

by Michael Llewellyn Smith

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Michael Llewellyn-Smith sets the Greek occupation of Smyrna and the war in Anatolia against the background of Greece's 'Great Idea' and of great power rivalries in the Near East. He traces the origins of the Greek statesman Eleftherios Venizelos's 'Ionian Vision' to his joint conception with David Lloyd George of an Anglo-Greek entente in the Eastern Mediterranean. This narrative text presents a comprehensive account of the disaster which has shaped the politics and society of modern Greece.… (more)

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Title:	Ionian vision : Greece in Asia Minor, 1919-1922
Authors:	Michael Llewellyn Smith
Info:	New York : St. Martins' Press; [14], 401, [8] p, 23 cm; http://opc4.kb.nl/DB=1/PPN?PPN=850000580
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Ionian Vision: Greece in Asia Minor, 1919-22 by Michael Llewellyn Smith

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Scholarly, readable and ultimately sobering, as the best historical writing often is. My late grandfather was a participant in that war and had left a daily diary (since lost in a fire) of his military service in that war which changed Greek history for ever (the Catastrophe, as it is known in Greece). Modern Turkey emerged from the momentous, bloody and cruel events of this period. (

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Aristeidis Stergiadis

Cretan Turks

Dimitrios Rallis

Goudi coup

Greek battleship Lemnos

Ionian University of Smyrna

List of massacres during the Greco-Turkish War (1919–22)

Massacre of Phocaea

Occupation of Smyrna

Yalova Peninsula massacres (1920–21)

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Michael Llewellyn-Smith sets the Greek occupation of Smyrna and the war in Anatolia against the background of Greece's 'Great Idea' and of great power rivalries in the Near East. He traces the origins of the Greek statesman Eleftherios Venizelos's 'Ionian Vision' to his joint conception with David Lloyd George of an Anglo-Greek entente in the Eastern Mediterranean. This narrative text presents a comprehensive account of the disaster which has shaped the politics and society of modern Greece.

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