Saturday 7 January 2012

Thessaloniki: 100 Years of Freedom

2012 marks the centenary of the liberation of Thessaloniki. 100 years as a free city, as part of Greek territory.

I will be discussing some poems and a novel about Thessaloniki at a conference (Between Two Worlds) in Athens later this month.

Here's one of the poems, from the beginning of World War II, "Salonica June 1940", by Bernard Spencer:


And a Civil War novel, "My Son is in the Mountains", by Daniel Nash (1955):


Daniel Nash, pen name for W. R. Loader.
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3 comments:

  1. Aris Grandman24 January 2012 at 11:10

    Would be so kind as to tell me who the publisher of Nash's book is?

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  2. Aris Grandman24 January 2012 at 11:36

    Would you be so kind as to tell me the publisher of Nash's novel?

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  3. Jim24 January 2012 at 12:35

    It was published in London in 1955, by Jonathan Cape. It may be hard to find, but you could try Amazon or Abebooks.

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