The history of a bewilderingly exotic city, rarely written about: five hundred y
ears of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories of Suleiman the Magnific
ent to its nadir under Nazi occupation. Salonica is the point where the wonders
and horrors of the Orient and Europe have met over the centuries. Written with a
Pepysian sense of the texture of daily life in the city through the ages, and w
ith breathtakingly detailed historical research, Salonica evokes the sights, sme
lls, habits, songs and responses of a unique city and its inhabitants.
