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Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism—gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herrin unveils the riches of a quite different civilization. Avoiding a standard chronological account of the Byzantine Empire's millennium-long history, she identifies the fundamental questions about Byzantium—what it was, and what special significance it holds for us today.

The author of Free returns with an extraordinary inquiry into historical injustice, dignity, truth, and imagination. When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her grandmother, Leman, honeymooning in the Alps in 1941 posted by a stranger on social media, she is faced with unsettling questions. Growing up...

Uncover the Lost Kingdom That Nearly Conquered the Ancient World Deep in the mountains of western Turkey lie the ruins of a civilization that time forgot—until now. In Ghosts of Arzawa, archaeologist R. Jay Driskill resurrects one of the Bronze Age's most fascinating and overlooked kingdoms, revealing a sophisticated empire that dared to challenge the mighty Hittites and corresponded as equals with the pharaohs of Egypt. The Kingdom History Almost Lost For over 3,000 years, Arzawa remained buried beneath layers of history, known only through fragmentary mentions in enemy archives. But ...

Looking into the intricate relationship between nationalism, national identity, and conflict, this book offers a comparative approach to understanding the enduring tensions in Southeast Europe. Alexis Heraclides examines the complex dynamics of five nations – Albanians, Bulgarians, Greeks, Macedonians, and Turks – and four key axis of conflicts: Greece and Turkey, Greece and Macedonia, Bulgaria and Macedonia, and Greece and Albania. Through in-depth analysis, the Heraclides explores how historical narratives and the denial of other's identities fuel protracted rivalry and hinder ...

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The Secret History, written by the sixth-century Byzantine historian Procopius, is one of the most extraordinary and scandalous documents to have survived from the early Byzantine period. Procopius, the leading official historian of his time, lived during the testing and indulgent time of Emperor Justinian the Great and wrote the official records of the successful wars and the grand building projects of his ruler. These were words of aggrandisement. But covertly, Procopius kept a very different record....

Lawrence Durrell's evocative memoir of living in Cyprus, just before the Greek/Turkish partition. This is a touching and atmospheric account of a place, now changed, where the two races lived side by side.

The author who unforgettably captured the experience of starting a new life in Tuscany in bestselling travel memoirs expands her horizons to immerse herself—and her readers—in the sights, aromas, and treasures of twelve new special places. A Year in the World is vintage Frances Mayes—a...

“Because life is short and we’ve still got places to see.” Four years after their last global journey, and with cancer, recovery, and lockdowns finally behind them, Emma and Darryl board a cruise ship bound for Europe. The route? From Australia to Greece via South Africa, Mauritius, Morocco, and more. From there, it is trains and buses across ancient Greek landscapes, through Bulgaria and Türkiye, and deep into the heart of India. But this is no packaged tour. There are bucket list sights, yes—but also sleepless nights, questionable coach drivers, lost passengers at borders, and ...

"...dramatic and entertaining... If you enjoy near-future, speculative, military fiction you can’t go wrong here." CounterFact Magazine. With Turkey weakened by its failed invasion of Bulgaria and by a raging Kurdish insurgency, the Greeks decide that the opportunity has come for them to recover Northern Cyprus. Special forces men sent to help the Kurds and an armored thrust into Eastern Thrace help to tie the Turkish Army down while Greek marines land on Northern Cyprus' beaches to liberate the island. Soon the smoke from burning armored fighting vehicles fills the air as Greece and ...

When inquisitive American journalist Joel Stratte-McClure decides to walk around the Mediterranean Sea, we're in for an exhilarating footloose adventure. As a 30 year expatriate in France, the author explores the coast, countryside and regional cultures while musing about life, meditation, literature, art, the environment, Greek gods and goddesses, history, and, of course, the art of walking. The second installment in his "Idiot and the Odyssey" series chronicles his 4,401-kilometer footloose journey from Rome through the Greek islands to Turkey. During the MedTrek, he completes twelve ...

This is a series of articles written and published in 1996-2000 in Macedonia, in Russia, in Egypt and in the Czech Republic. How the West lost the East. The economics, the politics, the geopolitics, the conspiracies, the corruption, the old and the new, the plough and the internet – it is all here, in prose, as provocative and vitriolic and loving and longing as I could make it. From "The Mind of Darkness": "'The Balkans' – I say – 'is the unconscious of the world'. People stop to digest this metaphor and then they nod enthusiastically. It is here that the repressed memories of ...

Stephanie Simonton's life is falling apart. Her parents were both recently killed, her farm is going bankrupt, and now she's on a cruise to Turkey and Greece alone and in complete misery. Sheikh Uri vowed to never love again after his fiancé died of cancer, but his father insists on an heir and arranges for him to meet several single ladies. When Uri sees his sweet Stephanie, he realizes that there is life after loss and vows to make her his own. Can Stephanie free herself from the past and move into his larger than life world? Visit Leah online: www.leahleonardromances.com

Operation Medusa 3: Final Coil The explosive conclusion to the Aegean War Trilogy “The war is won. Now begins the harder one—the war for peace.” The Aegean front has gone silent, but the world is breaking apart. Greece stands alone in victory as NATO collapses and China withdraws from the conflict it fueled. In the fragile calm that follows, Lieutenant General Yakovos Rousso faces his greatest test: keeping his soldiers disciplined while politicians bargain away the spoils of war. When Turkey offers Smyrna to end the fighting, old wounds reopen and national memory becomes a weapon. ...

After years spent in Germany struggling to come to terms with a dispirited and abusive past, Fenia Karapanos has returned to her roots in Greece. Her estranged grandfather has bequeathed her his villa in Athens, a gesture she assumes is reparation for having disowned her late mother. After taking in a grateful Syrian refugee to help her restore the property - and her life - Fenia discovers a collection of love letters hidden under the floorboards, reaching back nearly a century. In each one, Fenia unfolds another piece of her broken family history.

Robert L. Humphrey's final speech given at The Conference on Values in Higher Education University of Tennessee at Knoxville on April 10-12, 1997

The spark is now an inferno. Greek tanks grind through the mud at Evros, fighting to hold back Turkish armor. In the skies, Falx flies with a new wingman, Astra, against drone swarms armed with Chinese technology. On Cyprus, Greek Marines storm the beaches under Apache gunships, determined to finish a war decades in the making. While soldiers bleed, the world argues. At the UN, China and Turkey deny everything. In Brussels, NATO fractures — can Turkey still be called an ally, or has the alliance already collapsed from within? From the river crossings of Thrace to the burning streets of ...

Where must I locate thee now, O my homeland, or in what places? So wrote a Roman poet 2,000 years ago, and so feel Donald Yates and his wife, Teresa, after an eye-opening visit to Italy, Croatia, Greece, and Turkey.

The seventh book in the John Peters series takes place in and around Cyprus where Peters and his Oxford Group once more step in to prevent dangerous international situation from getting out of control. And in the process they are working to prevent cultural treasures of Cyprus from being looted.

As the war between Turkey and Greece rages, sucking in more of the world, a team of US Navy SEALs secretly enters the region. The Americans have to search for the two nuclear bombs stolen from the US airbase at Incirlik before these can be used by terrorists. Not only that, but they must find the bombs before other players hunting for the prize which these represent, do. And this means making the difficult moral choices that come with having to accomplish a mission at any cost. Smoke over the Bosporus series: "...exciting combat scenes and lots of them. If you’ve enjoyed this genre of ...