Michael Llewellyn Smith is a British diplomat who has served in Moscow, Paris, Warsaw, and Athens. His most recent post is as British Ambassador in Athens. He is also the author of 'The Great Island: A Study of Crete'.
'I have been reading Ionian Vision with immense enjoyment. It is a
wonderful book - scholarly, readable, and, when it deals with the
final terrible dénouement, truly tragic. How did I ever manage
without it?'
*Michael Howard, OM, CH, CBE, MC, formerly Chichele Professor of
the History of War and Regius Professor of Modern History at the
University of Oxford*
‘An outstanding addition to the growing body of serious academic
studies on the modern history of Greece … Llewellyn Smith’s book is
indispensable reading for anyone who would seek to understand the
convoluted politics of Greece in the twentieth century.’
*New Society*
‘’Ionian Vision’ has a theme worthy of Thucydides. … Mr Llewellyn
Smith has produced a fine, temperate and engrossing study.’
*International Affairs*
‘The expedition to Asia Minor in 1919-22 was a Greek tragedy in
every sense. … Among the merits of Mr Llewellyn Smith’s scholarly
version of the tragedy is the sense of anxious urgency and hope
against hope which it sustains throughout. … An all but definitive
account.’
*Times Literary Supplement*
‘Consistently readable, industriously researched and documented in
detail. … In this absorbing, dramatic and melancholy saga of war
and diplomacy, Mr Smith gives us a historical work of great
fascination and substance.’
*Books and Bookmen*
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