Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/516545to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe Author: Mark Mazower Narrator: Mark Mazower, John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 58 minutes Release date: November 16, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize • One of The Economist's top history books of the year From one of our leading historians, the definitive history of the Greek War of Independence The Greek War of Independence was an unlikely cause, a disorganized collection of Greek patriots up against what was still one of the most storied empires in the world, the Ottomans. The revolutionaries needed all the help they could get. And they got it, as Europeans and Americans embraced the idea that the heirs to ancient Greece, the wellspring of Western civilization, were fighting for their freedom against the proverbial Eastern despot, the Turkish sultan. Mazower does full justice to the more complicated reality on the ground, as a revolutionary conspiracy triggered outright rebellion. By the time the dust settled, Greece was free, and Europe was changed forever. It was a victory fora completely new kind of politics—international in its range and affiliations, popular in its origins, romantic in its sentiments, and radical in its goals. The Greek War of Independence was the first war in which a people claimed liberty for themselves and overthrew an entire empire to attain it, inaugurating a new world of nation-states, the world in which we still live.

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