HISLOP, VICTORIA

The Thread

London, Headline. 2011, 1st UK Edition. (ISBN: 9780755377732) Hardcover. Book, A beautiful and epic novel that spans nearly a hundred years, The Thread is a magnificent story of a friendship and a love that endures through the catastrophes and upheavals of the twentieth century,both natural and man-made,in the turbulent city of Thessaloniki, Greece..sweeping historical events, from fire to civil war to Nazi brutality and economic collapse. Thessaloniki, Greece, 1917: As Dimitri Komninos is born, a fire sweeps through the thriving multicultural city where Christians, Jews, and Muslims live side by side. It is the first of many catastrophic events that will forever change this place and its people. Five years later, as the Turkish army pushes west through Asia Minor, young Katerina loses her mother in the crowd of refugees clambering for boats to Greece. Landing in Thessaloniki's harbor, she is at the mercy of strangers in an unknown city. For the next eighty years, the lives of Dimitri and Katerina will be entwined with each other and - through Nazi occupation, civil war, persecution, and economic collapse -with the story of their homeland. Thessaloniki, Greece, 2007: A young Anglo-Greek hears his grandparents' remarkable story for the first time and understands he has a decision to make. For decades, Dimitri and Katerina have looked after the treasures of those who have been forced from their beloved city. Should he stay and become their new custodian? See all Editorial Reviews. As New/As New.

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Book number: 35865

Catalogue: Thessaloniki

Keywords: 9780755377732 Fiction Greece Thessaloniki Salonika Sold

KEELEY,EDMUND

The Salonika Bay Murder

Princeton, NJ, Princeton U.P. 1989, 1st.US Edition. (ISBN: 0691055653) Hardcover. Book, Politics and strange events surrounding the murder of the American journalist George Polk in Thessaloniki ,1948.395p. plates/bibliography.index. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 040026

Catalogue: Thessaloniki

Keywords: 0691055653 Greece Modern George Polk Murder Politics Thessaloniki Greece 1945-1949 (Civil War) Murder Trials

MARTON, KATI

The Polk Conspiracy : Murder and Cover-up in the Case of CBS News Correspondent George Polk

New York, Farrar,Strauss & Giroux. 1990, 1st.US Edition. (ISBN: 0374135533) Hardcover. Book, "Kati Marton's report on the savage and mysterious murder of George Polk is in the great journalistic tradition of her subject." 369p. plates.bibliography.index. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 040027

Catalogue: Thessaloniki

Keywords: 0374135533 Greece Greek George Polk Murder Thessaloniki Greece 1945-1949 (Civil War) Murder Trials

MITSAKIS, K [KARIOPHILIS] [METSAKES, KARIOPHILES]

Macedonia Throughout the Centuries.

Thessaloniki, Institute for Balkan Studies. 1973, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, [Series : Hidryma MeletoOn Chersonesou tou Haimou # 139]Short outline history of Greek Macedonia. "Based on the text of a lecture given at Strathclyde University of Glasgow on 24th February 1970" 53p. As New.

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Book number: 36048

Catalogue: Thessaloniki

Keywords: Macedonia Thessaloniki Greece Sold

PAPAHADJIS, N.& MOLHO. S. [????? ?. ??????????] [NIKOS D. PAPACHATZES]

Monuments of Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki, S Molho. 1968, 3rd Edition. Soft cover. Book, "This pamphlet was first published by Anatolia College, Thessaloniki. in 1957; the short text was written by N. Papahadjis (who also made the selection of pictures or drawings) and the translation into English by William Sanford, both teachers at Anatolia College. This later publication by S.Molho. editor and bookseller in Thessaloniki " is a reprint of the old edition with some additions by S Molho." No Date (? 1960's) 59p. illus diagrams indez[Only ONE copies of this edition found in Worldcat]. As New.

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Book number: 044815

Catalogue: Thessaloniki

Keywords: Salonika. Thessaloniki Byzantine Art Architecture Xgre 001 Sold Zzkarakas?

PAPAGIANNOPOULOS, APOSTOLOS

Thessaloniki 4 Provlemata

Thessalonike, Eurpaiko Etos Architectonikes Kleronimioa. 1975, 1st Greek Edition. Soft cover. Book, 1975 Europaiko eton Architechtonikos Klironomias. [1] Demographiko provlema [ 2] Poleodomiko provlema [3] Historikos choroa [4] Physiko perivallon. 24p. illus.[ WorldCat lists NO copies in the USA]. As New.

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Book number: 038757

Catalogue: Thessaloniki

Keywords: Thessaloniki Archtecture Modern Greece Greek X00 Books in Greek Sold

TSOPROS, KONSTANTINOS TH [1885-1966]

Anamneseis : Melenoiko - Thessalonike

Thessaloniki, Institute for Balkan Studies. 1992, 1st Greek Edition. Soft cover. Book, Series:Idruma Meleton Khersonesou tou Aimou, 238. Edited by Athanasios E Karathanases.In the 19th. century the population of Meleniko [Melnik] was predominantly Greek, but in the settlement after the Balkan Wars the area was ceded to Bulgaria and the Greek population was exiled to Greece. This book includes documents and phoographs relating to this perriod. 125p. plates. As New.

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Book number: 34568

Catalogue: Thessaloniki

Keywords: Greece Bulgaria Balkan Wars Meleniko Melnek Macedonia Bukgaria Bulgaria Balkan Wars