Mini book review - Twice a Stranger

erol · Post by **erol** » Wed 28 Mar 2018 9:06 am

Just finished reading "Twice a Stranger" by Bruce Clark. Subtitled "How Mass Expulsion Forged Modern Greece and Turkey" (copyright 2006)

The book looks at the mass movement of populations between Turkey and Greece in the late 1910's and early 1920's. It alternates between a 'top down' account of those who 'decreed' such movements (the story of war, high politics and diplomacy, as the author puts it) and a 'bottom up' account of those who endure such movements.

I found the book interesting and extremely approachable and readable. It is also pretty 'short' at around 250 pages given the scale and scope of the subject matter. Well worth a read imo for anyone interested in modern Greece and or Turkey.

Kath · Post by **Kath** » Wed 28 Mar 2018 10:39 am

Sounds very interesting. Have ordered via amazon. Thanks

dippersgirl · Post by **dippersgirl** » Wed 28 Mar 2018 2:53 pm

SOUNDS REALLY INTERESTING. UNFORTUNATELY NOT AVAILABLE FOR THE KINDLE

erol · Post by **erol** » Wed 28 Mar 2018 3:38 pm

dippersgirl wrote:SOUNDS REALLY INTERESTING. UNFORTUNATELY NOT AVAILABLE FOR THE KINDLE

Another book with some cross over in terms of events and period that I have recently read and recommend, which is available for kindle would be

"Paradise Lost: The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance: Smyrna 1922 - The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance"

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Paradise-Lost- ... rds=smyrna

Or

Just about every book I have read covering this period and / or formation and relationship of modern Greece and Turkey refers to Arnold J Toynbee's "The Western Question in Greece and Turkey: A study in the Contact of Civilisations (1922)" to some degree or other.

This is available free (out of copyright I assume) - and available in multiple formats including kindle. I have just started reading this. It is not an 'easy' read at all and requires 'effort', however for a book written in 1922 I am finding some of the parallels with contemporary situations in Syria and Iraq and Afghanistan today almost spookily resonant. Hard work but for me rewarding. It can be found here in format that can be read directly via a we browsers or if you scroll down a bit in a number of downloadable formats that can be put on e-readers, including kindle.

https://archive.org/details/westernquestioni00toynrich

jofra · Post by **jofra** » Wed 28 Mar 2018 6:55 pm

Twice A Stranger available here but only as a pdf file - I've downloaded it and tried converting to mobi/epub/doc etc using Calibre, Sigil, Nitro PDF and others, but due to maps, pictures etc., makes a very poor (and very large) output. Best reading the pdf on a tablet or PC; it can be loaded onto Kindles, but the print is exceedingly small.

dippersgirl · Post by **dippersgirl** » Fri 30 Mar 2018 2:39 pm

thanks for this, will try to download