Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation [Hardcover ed.] 022667374X, 9780226673745

We know ancient Greece, the civilization that shares the same name and gave us much that defines Western culture today.

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Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation [Hardcover ed.]
022667374X, 9780226673745

1. East meets west? -- 2. A seed is sown -- 3. Born in blood -- 4. First steps -- 5. Ideals and sorrows of youth -- 6. M

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First published by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK, 2019.

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The first major political biography of General Ioannis Metaxas, who assumed dictatorial power in Greece in 1936 and over

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A wide-ranging study of popular poetry and song in the Greek language from the last years of the Byzantine Empire to the

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