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2005"The Germans expected their airborne attack on Crete in 1941 - a unique event in the history of warfare - to be a textbook victory based on tactical surprise. They had no idea that the British, using Ultra intercepts, knew their plans and had laid a carefully-planned trap. It should have been the first German defeat of the war, but a fatal misunderstanding turned the battle round. Nor did the conflict end there. Ferocious Cretan freedom fighters mounted a heroic resistance, aided by a dramatic cast of British officers from Special Operations Executive. " Book
19641 corner bumped. Else very minor shelfwear. DJ is price-clipped with minor shelfwear. ; x, 284pp, illustrated. Contributors include Chadwick, Lang, Levin, C. Gordon, Blegen, et al.; 284 pages
19641 corner lightly bumped. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Bookplate to ffep. DJ is browned with some small tears. ; x, 284pp, illustrated. Contributors include Chadwick, Lang, Levin, C. Gordon, Blegen, et al.; 284 pages
1987Series B # 6 in the "McGill Companions to Modern Greek Studies"series . Contains material by Giannis Beratis, Petros Haris, Dimitris Hatzis, Spyros Plaskovitis, Stratis Tsirkas. with extensive notes and explanations in English. 202p. map Book
200121x27 cm. 99 pages. Paperback. In good condition.
1963Four adventurous women who found love and romance in the Levant : Isabel Burton, Jane Digby (who amongst other romantic attachments married Count Spyridon Theotocky, and co-habited with Christdoulos Hadji-Petros in Othonian Greece c. 1840-1850) Aimee Dubucq de Rivery, Isabelle Eberhardt. Ex-Library
1982A young woman stands at a crossroad: her father has recently died; she has left her husband; and more, recently, her lover has left her. Traveling east with her young daughter, she stops off to visit old friends and relatives, each of whom reflects a different facet of her own life. Having still to come to terms with past losses, Nikki is not yet prepared to face her future. Her trip is a kind of hiatus, a time during which no irrevocable decisions need be made, a time to consolidate and clarify. Each of the people she meets, each new situation, triggers a memory, reveals the past in a new light, prods a reassessment so that the novel becomes a tapestry of association whose design gains depth and richness as each new color is laid in. Finally, reader and narrator together come to see the pattern complete, to understand its meaning and so to be able to move on. Book
1843IN GREEK AND ENGLISH. THIS VOLUME ONLY. 22x15 cm. XXXII+698 pages. Hardcover. Cover rubbed and age stained. Cover corners worn. Front cover partly detached from spine and fully detached from binding. Spine detached from binding. Gilt on spine faded. Spine rubbed and age stained. Spine edges worn. Binding visible between several pages. Pen inscription on several pages - no damage to text. Pages age stained and slightly yellowing. In fair condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
1993Very minor shelfwear to book. DJ has minor shelfwear and creasing. ; 1.1 x 10.81 x 8.62 Inches; 444 pages; The art and architecture of Ancient Greece and Rome lies at the heart of the classical tradition of the Western world. Their legacy is so familiar as to have become commonplace. The legacy may appear simple, but the development of classical art in antiquity was complex and remarkably swift. It ran from near abstraction in 8th-century BC Greece, through years of observation and learning from the arts of the non-Greek world to the East and, in Egypt, to the brilliance of the classical revolution of the 5th century, which revealed attitudes and styles undreamt of by other cultures. After Alexander the Great, this became the art of an empire, readily learned by Rome and further developed according to the Romans' special character and needs until it provided the idiom for the imaging of Christianity. In this book, the story of this pageant of the arts is told by five leading scholars. Their aim has been to demonstrate how the arts served very different societies and patrons; the roles and objectives of the artists; the way in which the classical style was disseminated far beyond the borders of the Greek and Roman world; and the splendour and quality of the arts themselves.
1990A general history of Greece from its earliest beginnings down to the present day.It covers the Classical past, the conquest by the Romans, the Byantine era, the occupation by the Turks, ther dstruggle for Independence up r current events. "This history will help the visitor make sense of modern Greece against the background of its diverse heritage" 306p. Chronology, Gazetteer, index Book
1998A general history of Greece from its earliest beginnings down to the present day.It covers the Classical past, the conquest by the Romans, the Byantine era, the occupation by the Turks, ther dstruggle for Independence up r current events. "This history will help the visitor make sense of modern Greece against the background of its diverse heritage" 306p. Chronology, Gazetteer, index Book
196816.5x24.5 cm. 266 pages. Gilt hardcover. In good condition.
1964Ex-lib with minimal markings ; Hachette World Guides; Maps; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 921 pages
1973".begins with the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 and ends with the Greek War of Independence" 233p+plates, maps, bibliography. index. Crisp tight copy. The previous reader refrained from marking the text with notes, using the end papers instead so the book remains a " good" neat read ! Book
1991Guide to interesting places in Greece that are beyond the well worn tracks of package tourists. Interesting guide to "Out-of-the-way Places to Tour and Explore." 286p+ 8 leaves of coloured plates. illus index ,maps Book
1979A comprehensive guide to Crete full of evocative and personal observations. (Originally published Faber & Faber, London 1969.) Translated ito German by Peter de Mendelssohn. 446p. illus( some col) index. Book
1996"Aspects of Greek History, 750 - 323 BC is an up-to-date textbook on ancient Greek history that, topic- by-topic, uses a wealth of original sources to interpret this history for those with little prior knowledge of the subject. Chapter by chapter, the relevant historical periods from the age of colonisation to Alexander the Great are reconstructed. The book covers the main literary sources: Aristotle, Diodorus, Herodotus, Plutarch, Thucydides, and Xenophon; Greek political and military history from the beginnings to Alexander's Battle of Gaugamela. . Overall, this is an indispensable collection of material for the student of classics as well as the general reader, who requires a grounding in Greek history." 542p. glossary, bibliography.maps. index. Book
183713.5X21.5 cm. 469 pages. Hardcover. Cover slightly rubbed. Cover corners and edges slightly worn. Pages are yellowing. Else in good condition.
1988The story of a widow, whose future looks bleak until she meets a Greek shipping millionaire. She is swept into the world of international money and financial intrigue in the cities of London, New York and Athens, and to a Greek island - where tragedy threatens her idyllic new life. Eventually she discovers a truth about her life which enables her to succeed as a painter. Book
199123x15cm. 152 pages. Hardcover with dust-jacket. Cover slightly rubbed. Else in good condition.
1965DJ faded with small open tears ; For centuries people have gravitated to Greece. Author Burt examines this phenomonon; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 332 pages
1980The whole of Greece, as every traveller and archaeologist knows, is alive with history and prehistory. Mr and Mrs Burn select over seventy of the most important and interesting places, islands and buildings, relate what happened there in the past, and describe in detail what now remains. Some of these sites are well known, others less so; but all have been chosen not only for their historical interest and beauty, but also because remains still exist, usually above foundation level, bringing the past to life. Inevitably, the greater part of this book is devoted to prehistoric and classical places, sites of a civilisation ancestral to our own; but attention is also given to the great (and some small) churches and monasteries of Christian Greece and to the major Frankish castles of mediaeval times. A lively outline of Greek history provides an introduction and puts the whole in perspective, and each site is illustrated by a specially-drawn plan or map and, in many cases, a photograph. The authors' enthusiasm for the country and its past is vividly conveyed in their writing, making The Living Past of Greece an invaluable companion for the traveller already there or for the reader and potential traveller at home. Book
2002Marginalia (lines) and underlining in pen to about 4 pages else fine. ; Papers by Burstein: A contested history: Egypt, Greece and Afrocentrism; Demand: Gender Studies and Ancient History: Participation and Power, I. Morris: Archaeology and ancient Greek History; Tritle: The "Next Assignment" and the frontiers of Ancient History: Thucydides, Survival and the Writing of History. ; Publication of the Association of Ancient Historians 7; 92 pages
2002Creasing to front wrap and corners of first few pages. ; Papers by Burstein: A contested history: Egypt, Greece and Afrocentrism; Demand: Gender Studies and Ancient History: Participation and Power, I. Morris: Archaeology and ancient Greek History; Tritle: The "Next Assignment" and the frontiers of Ancient History: Thucydides, Survival and the Writing of History. ; Publication of the Association of Ancient Historians 7; 92 pages
2002Very light shelfwear. Scholars' name to ffep (Mark Golden). ; Papers by Burstein: A contested history: Egypt, Greece and Afrocentrism; Demand: Gender Studies and Ancient History: Participation and Power, I. Morris: Archaeology and ancient Greek History; Tritle: The "Next Assignment" and the frontiers of Ancient History: Thucydides, Survival and the Writing of History. ; Publication of the Association of Ancient Historians 7; 92 pages