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Gallipoli: The Holy War between the Greeks and the Turks
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May 27, 2009 |
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I began reading Birds Without Wings merely as a follow up to Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Louis de Bernieres' prize winning novel, set on the Greek island of Cephallonia during World War II is still, to my mind, one of the best books of recent years. The way the opening chapters gradually come together and explode into a love story is brilliant, with the characters rather than the location being the focal point. I suppose I half expected Birds Without Wings to be along similar lines but, instead found it was Anatolia, the Gallipoli peninsula and the tragic last years of the Ottoman empire which took centre stage.
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