Excerpt from A Short Popular History of CreteFor many weeks I have been receiving from all parts of the kingdom requests for information on the subject of Crete and the relations of the Cretans with the kingdom of Greece. It has been impossible to meet this demand, because the Cretan question and the action of the Greek Government and people can only be explained by telling the island story, and no brief but sufficient summary of Cretan history was to be found. This want is supplied by Mr. Freese in the following chapters, which give an account of the geographical and physical features of the island, sketch its political and social life from the earliest times till now, and show what have been the struggles and aspirations of the whole Hellenic people. It is impossible, Without such a glance back over their stormy and suffering past, to understand the position, or to enter into the feelings and aspirations of the Greek nation or their Cretan brothers. Crete has been a martyr island. It had a thousand years Of changeful history before the Christian era, and, making allowance for a few centuries of peace and prosperity, it may fairly be said to have had a thousand years of struggle and suffering in Christian.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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