Book Reviews – Christopher Deliso

Book Reviews History Turkey

An Irishman’s WWI East Med Memoir: Hard Lying (Eland, 2023)

May 25, 2023May 25, 2023 Editor british empire, cyprus, eastern mediterranean, egypt, famagusta, france, gallipoli, general maxwell, intelligence, israel, lemnos, maritime, mersin, seaplanes, soe, strategies, suez, syria, tactics, technology, turkey, wwi

In 1925, an Anglo-Irish former desert surveyor under British Egyptian colonial rule and then maritime intelligence officer in the Eastern

Book Reviews Greece Travel

A South Crete Travel Memoir: Peter Trudgill’s In Sfakia (2008)

May 25, 2023May 25, 2023 Editor crete, history, local customs, mountains, sfakia

I continue the tradition of publishing great reviews of worthy but obscure books on my Substack TLS newsletter with this

Balkans Book Reviews History

Two Books on Northern Albania

May 25, 2023May 25, 2023 Editor albania, balkans, enver hoxha, history, illyrians, skenderbeg, soe, wwii

Bringing together two new publications from Oxford’s Signal Books in this review for my Substack newsletter, this lively discussion of

Book Reviews Greece History Turkey

Eric Ambler’s Literary Sub-Texts and the Greece-Turkey 1923 Population Exchanges: The Past as Eternally Present

April 6, 2023April 6, 2023 Editor 1923, a coffin for dimitrios, basil zaharoff, charles latimer, eric ambler, greece, literature, philanthropy, red cross, refugeesl, the mask of dimitrios, thrillers, turkey, wwi

This very unique combination of literary assessment, philosophy and history was inspired by an academic event held in Athens last

Book Reviews History

Byzantine Rhetoric’s Political Messaging and Narrative Tactics: The Work of Historian Florin Leonte

April 6, 2023April 6, 2023 Editor byzantium rhetoric, history, manuel ii, ottoman, palaiologan

Enjoy my new reviews and interview focusing on the work of Byzantine Studies Professor Florin Leonte, over on my Substack