Download or read book Ionian Vision written by Michael Llewellyn Smith and published by Hurst & Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Llewellyn-Smith 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 Eastern Mediterranean. This narrative text presents a comprehensive account of the disaster which has shaped the politics and society of modern Greece.