Paradise Lost

In Paradise Lost, best-selling author and journalist Giles Milton tells the largely unknown story of destruction of this extraordinarily heterogeneous, tolerant city, Smyrna - a disaster that would prefigure the coming clash of civilization between East and West. Unfolding through eyewitness accounts and the memories of survivors, many interviewed for the first time, the book offers a vivid narrative account of one of teh most vicious military catastrophes of the modern age.