HELLENIC LEAGUE  OF AMERICA (HLA)

Ελληνικής Ένωσης Αμερικής (HLA)

 

 

 

 

 

Hellenic League of America (HLA)

HLA Recommended Reading List

1) The Histories by Herodotus --Greek historian, Herodotus (c.485-425 BC)  of Halicarnassus,the father of history authoured the world's first historical narrative documenting wars between Greeks and barbarians and chronicling and describing the details of Greek civilization and wonder ,and the battles between ancient Greeks and Persians.

2) The Pontian Question in the United Nations --Written by Michalis Charalambidis, member of the executive Committee of the International League for the Rights and Liberations of People, Charalambidis has presented the Pontian Genocide and the wider Hellenic Genocide to many international bodies ,recently appearing before the EU, Charalambidis has led the effort to recognize the Pontian Genocide in the UN, and has also participated in conferences with Armenian Genocide scholars and presenters Tesa Hoffman and B. Whitaker , at the UN Commission in Geneva. Charalambidis provides a wealth of essays, letters, and pictures documenting the Pontian struggle for Genocide recognition, reporting on human rights abuses against Pontians in Turkey today, and encapsulating the Thracian and Cypriot struggle as well. Available from HLA in Greek and English editions.

3) Smyrna 1922 by Marjorie Housepian Dobkin --This historical narrative reveals the origins of festering current hostilities in Greece and attitudes towards the European powers and the United States, whose diplomatic stance during and after the Smyrna Catastrophe set an enduring pattern. In September of 1922, Mustafa Kemal "Ataturk", the  leader  and founder of modern Turkey, led his troops into Smyrna (now called Izmir by Turks ) a predominantly Greek city, as a flotilla of 27 Allied warships -including 3 American destroyers- looked on. The Turks soon proceeded to indulge in an orgy of pillage, rape and slaughter that the western powers anxious to protect  their oil and trade interests in Turkey, condoned by their silence and refusal to intervene. Turkish forces then set fire to the legendary city and totally destroyed it. There followed a massive cover-up by tacit agreement of the Western Allies. Marjorie Housepian Dobkin has rendered the first scholarly account of what took place within the city. She has used as sources diaries, letters and eyewitness reports of the participants themselves.

 

4)  Γεωργίου Γρίβα-Διγενή
"ΑΓΩΝ ΕΟΚΑ ΚΑΙ ΑΝΤΑΡΤΟΠΟΛΕΜΟΣ"
The Memoirs of General Grivas. Guerrilla Warfare and Eoka's Struggle.
  EOKA (Εθνική Οργάνωσις Κυπρίων Αγωνιστών, National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters), under the leadership of Giorgos Grivas codename "Digenis", launched a Nationalist Revolution with only 300 militants against over 40,000 soldiers of the British Empire allied with the Turks. EOKA eventually mobilized the entire Cypriot population to struggle for UNION OF CYPRUS WITH GREECE. This memoir by the great Hellenic Lion of Cyprus,Grivas, who also fought as a battle field officer in the Asia Minor campaign against the Turks,  is "in his own words" account on waging guerilla war for Nationalist Revolution, this was the first great Nationalist Revolution following the Second World War, once required reading at military academies around the world. 5) The Campaigns of Alexander by ArrianAncient Greek military commander Arrian provides the most complete account of our "King of Kings" Alexander The Great, the conqueror of the entire civilized world. 6)  A Crime of Vengeance: An Armenian Struggle for Justice by Edward Alexanderrelates Turkey's Genocide of Armenians in 1915 and the six year hunt and assassination of former leader of the Young Turk party responsible for the crime, Grand Visier Talaat Pasha, by volunteer Armenian Genocide survivors  as revealed in an internationally-covered Berlin murder trial in 1921.  

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