Giles Milton

1922. Smyrne, l'actuelle Izmir, conquise par la Grèce à la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale, est reprise par les Turcs qui se déchaînent contre la "ville infidèle", plongeant près de deux millions de personnes dans l'une des plus grandes catastrophes humaines du XXe siècle. Recourant à des récits de témoins et aux souvenirs de survivants, Giles Milton restitue l'ampleur de cet épisode tragique de l'histoire des relations entre l'Orient et l'Occident.

On Saturday 9th September, 1922, the victorious Turkish cavalry rode into Smyrna, the richest and most cosmopolitan city in the Ottoman Empire. What happened over the next two weeks must rank as one of the most compelling human dramas of the twentieth century. Almost two million people were caught up in a disaster of truly epic proportions. PARADISE LOST is told with the narrative verve that has made Giles Milton a bestselling historian. It unfolds through the memories of the survivors, many of them interviewed for the first time, and the eyewitness accounts of those who found themselves caught up in one of the greatest catastrophes of the modern age.