"One of the keenest impressions which I brought away with me from Smyrna was a feeling of shame that I belonged to the human race."

- US. Consul at Smyrna, George Horton

On Come Receive the Light, the National Orthodox Radio Program, Giles Milton, an international best-selling author, talks about his newest book, Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a Christian City in the Islamic World. Giles tells the largely unknown story of the destruction of Smyrna, an extraordinary, heterogeneous and tolerant city with a large Orthodox Christian population — a disaster that would prefigure the coming clash of civilizations between East and West.

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