Books by Charles King
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English
review 1: Great read! I've postponed reading a monograph on Odessa since a few years ago when I was due to move there for a job, which in the end didn't happen. As a Romanian, it was painful to read the important history testimonials, not captured in the history books I grew up with, the ...
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English
review 1: European history through the point-of-view of Istanbul.Fascinating history, only reservation is the narrative technique. The author forces himself to look at the city through the idea of the Pera Palace. As the book goes on he frees himself from that device and the story gets rol...