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Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize • Named a top history book of the year by The Economist From one of our leading historians, the definitive history of the Gree

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When in 1821, the Greeks rose in violent revolution against the rule of the Ottoman Turks, waves of sympathy spread across Western Europe and the United States.