A "New York Times" bestseller, this masterful history of the Armenian massacres of the 1890s and the genocide of 195 is told from the view of American involvement in what was the first major international human rights movement in American history.
The memoir of an American boy of the 1950s and 1960s discovering his Armenian past. Balakian is a highly regarded poet whose family fled the Turkish massacres in Armenia during World War I and settled in the United States. Winner of the 1998 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir.
On April 24, 1915, the priest Grigoris Balakian was arrested along with 250 other intellectuals in Constantinople, in what was to be a systematic attempt to eliminate the Armenian minority. This is a dramatic and comprehensive eyewitness account of the first modern genocide.
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Edition: 1st edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY
Date Published: 2003
Description: NF/NF, yes. 8vo, 475pp, This book is in "as new" condition. The dust jacket is in a protective cover. A history of international human rights and forgotten heroes. read more
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