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The Dilessi Murders - Greek Brigands and English Hostages

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9781853752803

9781853752803

This work tells the story of how in 1870, four travellers in Dilessi, Greece, three British and one Italian, were kidnapped by a gang of bandits and held for ransom. The negotiations were botched and eventually the four were murdered. The episode severely tested the relations of the young Greek state with Britain, under Gladstone at the time, and a country that had done much to help it gain its independence from the Turkish Ottoman Empire. The story throws light upon Greece and British diplomacy. One chapter of the book, "Truth and Ethnic Truth", caused some offence in Athens at the time but has since been considered as an analysis of the modern Greek mind. The book was written in 1961.

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Cover Type : Paperback
Author : Romilly Jenkins
Author Notes :Romilly Jenkins was Professor of Modern Greek at King\'s College,London,and one of the foremost contemporary scholars of Bbyzantine and Modern Greece.He wrote this book in 1961 and died in 1969
Published :Prion Great Britain
Year :1998

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