turkish historian biray kolluoğlu kırlı, in an article published by the oxford university press, has written that "george horton['s] anti-turkish bias is crudely explicit". this view is shared by professor emeritus peter m. buzanski, who attributed horton's anti-turkish stance to his well-known "fanatic" philhellenism and his wife being greek and wrote "during the turkish capture of smyrna, at the end of the greco-turkish war, horton suffered a breakdown, resigned from the diplomatic service, and spent the balance of his life writing anti-turkish, pro-greek books." scholar david roessel shares a similar view, noting that except for his laments about materialism and the great war, "horton reverted to the philhellenic and anti-turkish rhetoric" in his book.