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10. BACKGROUND READING
Beyond the classics listed in
Top 10 Tomes
,
check out
Modern Greece - A Short
History
(C M Woodhouse), Petros Haris's
The Longest Night - Chronicles of a
Dead City
, which describes life in Athens during World War II, and
Dinner with
Persephone
by Patricia Storace - an amusing account of an American poet's one-year
sojourn in modern Athens.
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