
Twice A Stranger
How Mass Expulsion Forged Modern Greece And Turkey
Bruce Clark(Author)
Granta Books (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 5. March 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-86207-924-3 (ISBN)
Description
It was a massive, yet little-known landmark in modern history: in 1923, after a long war over the future of the Ottoman world, nearly 2 million citizens of Turkey or Greece were moved across the Aegean, expelled from their homes because they were of the 'wrong' religion. Orthodox Christians were deported from Turkey to Greece, Muslims from Greece to Turkey. At the time, world statesmen hailed the transfer as a solution to the problem of minorities who could not coexist. Both governments saw the exchange as a chance to create societies where a single culture prevailed. But how did the people who crossed the Aegean feel about this exercise in ethnic engineering? Bruce Clark's fascinating account of these turbulent events draws on new archival research in Greece and Turkey and interviews with some of the surviving refugees, allowing them to speak for themselves for the first time.
Reviews / Votes
Twice a Stranger is a book that needed to be written, and Bruce Clark has achieved it superbly. Anyone with an interest in Greece or Turkey ought to read it * Daily Telegraph * [A] wise new book ... fascinating * Sunday Times *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Dimensions
Height: 201 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
220 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-86207-924-3 (9781862079243)
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Person
Bruce Clark writes on European Affairs and Religion for the Economist. He has been diplomatic correspondent of the Financial Times, Moscow correspondent for The Times, and Athens correspondent for Reuters. He has previously written An Empire's New Clothes (Vintage).