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Paradise Lost. Smyrna 1922

Paradise Lost is a history of the great fire of Smyrna in 1922, by bestselling non-fiction author Giles Milton. A consequence of the latter days of Greco-Turkish War, the fire decimated much of the port city of Smyrna, modern day Izmir, causing death and destruction, and forcing hundreds of thousands of civilians to flee. Above all Milton’™s book has been noted for celebrating the heroism of individuals who put lives before ideology in what can be viewed as one of history’™s defining moments of ethnic and religious conflict.