- History
"As Mark Mazower shows us in his enthralling and definitive new history, myths about the Greek War of Independence outpaced the facts from the very beginning, and for good reason. This was an unlikely cause, against long odds, a ragtag collection of Greek patriots up against what was still one of the most formidable empires in the world, the Ottomans.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and epic.
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- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Mark Mazower
- First published
- 2021
- Pages
- 608
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited, Penguin Publishing Group
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781591847335
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