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Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul by Charles King (CD-Audio, 2014)

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At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For the first time ever, they had agreed to use a nationally unified calendar and clock.Yet in Istanbul--an ancient crossroads and Turkey's largest city--people were looking toward an uncertain future. Never purely Turkish, Istanbul was home to generations of Greeks, Armenians, and Jews, as well as Muslims. It welcomed White Russian bles ousted by the Russian Revolution, Bolshevik assassins on the trail of the exiled Leon Trotsky, German professors, British diplomats, and American entrepreneurs--a multicultural paply of performers and poets, do-gooders and ne'er-do-wells. During the Second World War, thousands of Jews fleeing occupied Europe found passage through Istanbul, some with the help of the future Pope John XXIII. At the Pera Palace, Istanbul's most luxurious hotel, so many spies mingled in the lobby that the manager posted a sign asking them to relinquish their seats to paying guests.With beguiling prose and rich character portraits, Charles King brings to life a remarkable era when a storied city stumbled into the modern world and reshaped the meaning of cosmopolitanism.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
ISBN-10
1483049396
ISBN-13
9781483049397
eBay Product ID (ePID)
209349490

Product Key Features

Author
Charles King
Format
CD, CD Standard Audio Format
Language
English

Additional Product Features

Running Time
732
Read by
Professor Grover Gardner
Date of Publication
15/09/2014
Contained Items Statement
10 Audio Cds
Subject
Regional History
Imprint
Blackstone Audiobooks
Country of Publication
United States

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