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Salonica, City of Ghosts
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The history of a rarely written about, bewilderingly exotic city: five hundred years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories of Suleiman the Magnificent to its nadir under Nazi occupation. * Stunningly detailed, original research presented with a Simon Schama-esque masterly, sweeping narrative style. * A genuine prize contender.

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Mark Mazower is the author of Inside Hitler's Greece (Yale), Dark Continent (Penguin Press) and The Balkans (Weidenfeld), and is published in the US by Knopf. He is professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London.

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From Amazon readers' reviews of Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century (Penguin, 1999) 'Original, insightful, provocative and easy to read. Easily the best one-volume history of Europe available: original, insightful, provacative and easy to read.' 'Mazower is masterly: A must read for anyone interested in politics or recent history. ' 'A superb introduction to a dying century Mazower's work is always clear and concise. He reveals the fragility of democracy inside Europe over the last century and he has challenging insights that prompt us to think of the coming decades in creaking nation states. A must for the Millennium'

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