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Alexandria: City of Memory
by Michael Haag

Alexandria: City of Memory
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Author: Michael Haag
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-10-11
ISBN: 0300104154
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Yale University Press

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Book Review: Alexandria at an Angle
Summary: 5 Stars

An interested reader will acquire sharp insights into the lives of three important authors (I confess--none of whose books I have read) connected to the city founded by Alexander the Great. Perhaps more importantly, one will be given glimpses of the social and political background to a fascinating three or four decades. Cotton, Zionism, Greece's role in the region, Rommel and his desert campaign, the British lion's reach, the rise of Egyptian nationalism, and the worldly inhabitants of a multicultural, usually tolerant, and historically special Mediterranean port city are all here. Michael Haag has written an extremely intelligent book on the end of a particular era.

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