Ionian Vision: Greece in Asia Minor, 1919-1922

The author sets the Greek occupation of Smyrna and the war in Anatolia against the background of Greece´ s ´Great Idea´ and of Great Power rivalries in the Near East. He traces the origins of the Greek statesman Eleftherios Venizelos´ s ´Ionian Vision´ to his joint conception with David Lloyd George of an Anglo-Greek entente in the East Mediterranean. This absorbing narrative is the definitive account of the disaster which has shaped the politics and society of modern Greece.