['Cartoon' from Alexis Xenakis' article in the National Herald (NYC), June
23 2001]
The bitter fate of Anatolian
Hellenism: selected bibliography
Farewell Anatolia
by Dido Sotiriou [English translation by
Fred A. Reed,
Paul & Co Publishing Consortium, 1996; first published in Greek (1962) as
"Matomena Chomata"/"Blood-soaked lands" (historical novel)]
Disaster and Fiction: modern Greek fiction and the Asia Minor
disaster of 1922
by Thomas Doulis [University of California Press,
1977]
America America, The Anatolian, Beyond the Aegean
a trilogy by
film director and novelist Elia Kazan [1962,
1982, 1994]
Modern Greek in Asia Minor: a study of the dialects of Silli,
Cappadocia and Pharasa, with grammar, texts, translations and commentary
by Richard M. Dawkins [Cambridge University Press, 1916]
The Greeks of Asia Minor: confession, community and ethnicity in
the nineteenth century
by Gerasimos Augustinos [Kent State
University Press, 1992]
On horseback through Asia Minor
by Frederick Burnaby [Oxford
University Press paperbacks, 1996; first edition 1877]
Travels in Asia Minor, 1764-1765
by Richard Chandler [British
Museum]
Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the sevevteenth
century,
by Evliya Efendi, translated by von Hammer [Oriental
Translation Fund, 1850]
The last Hellenism of the region of St. Gregory of Nazianzus,
Akseray-Ghelveri (Carbala) [in Greek, with abstract
in French and English]
by Helen Karatzas [Gnosi, 1985]
The decline of Medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor and the process of
Islamization from the eleventh through the fifteenth century
by
Spyros Vryonis [University of California Press, 1971]
The Barbarians of Asia: the peoples of the steppes from 1600 B.C.
by Stuart Legg [Dorset Press, 1970]
Ottoman Centuries: The rise and fall of the Turkish Empire
by
Lord Kinross [Morrow Quill Paperbacks, New York, 1979]
The Sultans
by Noel Barber [Simon and Schuster, New York,
1973]
The Young Turks
by E. E. Ramsaur [Princeton University Press,
1957]
The old Turkey and the new
by Sir Harry Luke [Geoffrey Bles,
London, 1953]
The Balkan Wars, 1912-13: The War Correspondence of Leon Trotsky
[Pathfinder Press, New York, 1981]
Secrets of the Bosporus
by Henry Morgenthau [Hutchinson,
London, 1918]
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the
Creation of the Modern Middle East
by David Fromkin [Avon Books,
New York, 1989]
The Western Question in Greece and Turkey: a study in the contact of
civilizations
by Arnold Toynbee [Howard Fertig, New York, 1970
(reprint of the 1923 second edition );
first edition 1922]
Ataturk: a biography of Mustafa Kemal, father of modern Turkey
by Lord Kinross [William Morrow, New York, 1965]
Smyrna 1922: the destruction of a city
by Marjorie
Housepian-Dobkin
[Kent State University Press, 1988; first edition 1966]
The unification of Greece, 1770-1923
by Douglas Dakin
[St. Martin's Press, 1972]
I was sent to Athens
by Henry Morgenthau [Doubleday, Doran and
Co., Inc., Garden City (NY), 1929]
American influence in Greece, 1917-1929
by Louis P. Cassimatis
[Kent State University Press, 1988]
Stillborn Republic: social coalitions and party strategies in Greece,
1922-1936
by George Th. Mavrogordatos [University of California
Press, 1983]
Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe: the social life of Asia Minor
refugees in Piraeus
by Renee Hirschon [Clarendon Press, 1989]
A survival story: the 1995 memoir of
Aggeliki Nikolaou Politi-Matthaiou [in Greek]
[unpublished]
Not Even My Name
by Thea Halo [Penguin, 2000]
Ambassador MacVeagh Reports: Greece, 1933-1947
edited by John
O. Iatrides [Princeton University Press, 1980] (includes a 'comparison' of post-1922 Greece and Turkey)
The Greeks and their heritages
by Arnold Toynbee [Oxford
University Press, 1981; modern Greece's
"vindication" in the renowed historian's last book]
Ours once more: folklore, ideology and the making of modern Greece
by Michael Herzfeld [Pella Publishing Company, 1986; first
edition 1982]
Greek dance at Moschonissi (Cunda Island)
"In 1922, Venizelos sent a poor and badly-equipped Greek army to recapture
the lands of Byzantium in the East. The men said they were going to 'the
Red Apple Tree' and pursued a dream, to recapture the great lands of Greece.
My grandmother, Labidona, cried when she saw that they had ragged clothes
and scant ammunition and my grandfather, Damianos, a sailor of the old
sailing ships, loved his grandchildren and let them, my mother told me,
eat the food off his plate under the protestations of my grandmother. Life
went on, but the stage moved, in a great earth-shaking movement, to the
land of Greece, to the North where the hordes were considered immigrants
and to a slice of land in Athens even now called, 'Roof of Our Fathers'."
[From Phaedra Vasiliki Damianakos' "Single Mother: A New York Story" (1999,
ISBN 1-58500-417-0), p. 6]
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