Greece and Britain
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(Ex Library) By Stanley Casson
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An account of the relationship and mutual influence of Greece and Great Britain.
Stanley Casson gives a fascinating description of the earliest voyages of Greek sailors to England in search of tin; an almost unknown account of England in the sixteenth century by a Greek traveller side by side with an Elizabethan Englishman's account of a journey to Turkey which took him to the Greek Islands and mainland.
He shows how with the seventeenth century came a revival of interest in classical Greece which reached its height in the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century came the Greek War of Independence in which Britain took a small but enthusastic part and from which she derived much inspiration. In the war of 1914-1918 Greece and Britain were allies - the author himself served in Salonika for two years - and once again in this war the two peoples are fighting together.
First published by Collins in 1943. Hardback.
