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Starting in early 1915,
the Ottoman Turks began
deporting and killing
hundreds of thousands of
Armenians in the first
major genocide of the
twentieth century. By the
end of the First World
War, the number of
Armenians in what would
become Turkey had been
reduced by 90
percent--more than a
million people. A century
later, the Armenian
Genocide remains
controversial but
relatively unknown,
overshadowed by later
slaughters and the chasm
separating Turkish and
Armenian interpretations
of events. In this
definitive narrative
history, Ronald Suny
cuts through nationalist
myths, propaganda, and
denial to provide an
unmatched account of
when, how, and why the
atrocities of 1915-16
were committed. Drawing
on archival documents and
eyewitness accounts,
this is an unforgettable
chronicle of a cataclysm
that set a tragic pattern
for a century of genocide
and crimes against
humanity.
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On 24th April 2015 people
around the world
commemorated the
centenary of the death of
over one million
Armenians. In their eyes,
and in those of many
around the world, they
will be remembering a
genocide perpetrated by
the Ottoman Empire.
Turkey has always
explained the dead as
simply victims of a
vicious civil war, and
continues to this day to
refuse to acknowledge the
events as constituting
genocide.This argument
has become, in turn, an
international issue.
Twenty national
parliaments in democratic
countries have voted to
recognise the genocide,
but Britain and the USA
continue to equivocate
for fear, it would seem,
of alienating their NATO
ally.In this seminal
book, Geoffrey Robertson
QC, a former UN appeals
judge, sets out to prove
beyond all reasonable
doubt that the massacres
and deportations were a
crime against humanity
which amounted to
genocide.
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As a world war rages in
Europe in 1915, Ottoman
authorities commence on
the eastern frontier of
their empire, the
systematic slaughter of
1.5 million Armenians -
the first genocide of the
20th century. A teenage
boy named Kaspar
Hovannisian is one among
a generation of Armenians
who survives the murder
of their families and
ancestral homeland, and
escape to new destinies
in the United States.
Kaspar follows the
American Dream to the San
Joaquin Valley of
California, where he
amasses an agricultural
and real estate empire.
But memories of his
homeland burn strong - a
legacy of love, sorrow,
and faith in salvation.
Kaspar`s son Richard
leaves the family farm
determined to protect the
history of a lost nation
against the forces of
time and denial. He helps
pioneer the field of
Armenian Studies in the
United States and becomes
a world authority on
genocide. Kaspar`s
grandson Raffi is himself
haunted by memory, but
he is also inspired in
1989 to leave his law
firm in Los Angeles and
to stage the
unprecedented act of
repatriation to Soviet
Armenia, where he plays
a historic role in a
difficult, but
independent, new
republic.Now, in a
moving book that is part
investigative memoir and
part history of the
Armernian diaspora,
Garin Hovannisian tells
his family`s story - a
tale of tragedy, memory,
and redemption which
illuminates the long
shadows that history
casts on the lives of
men.
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”Brilliant.”-Time
”Admirable, rigorous.
De Waal [is] a wise and
patient reporter.”-The
New York Review of Books
”Never have all the
twists and turns, sad
carnage, and
bullheadedness on all
side been better
described-or indeed,
better explained...Offers
a deeper and more
compelling account of the
conflict than anyone
before.”-Foreign
Affairs Since its
publication in 2003, the
first edition of Black
Garden has become the
definitive study of how
Armenia and Azerbaijan,
two southern Soviet
republics, were pulled
into a conflict that
helped bring them to
independence, spell the
end the Soviet Union,
and plunge a region of
great strategic
importance into a decade
of turmoil. This
important volume is both
a careful reconstruction
of the history of the
Nagorny Karabakh conflict
since 1988 and
on-the-spot reporting of
the convoluted aftermath.
Part contemporary
history, part travel
book, part political
analysis, the book is
based on six months
traveling through the
south Caucasus, more
than 120 original
interviews in the region,
Moscow, and Washington,
and unique historical
primary sources, such as
Politburo archives.The
historical chapters trace
how the conflict lay
unresolved in the Soviet
era; how Armenian and
Azerbaijani societies
unfroze it; how the
Politiburo failed to cope
with the crisis; how the
war was fought and ended;
how the international
community failed to sort
out the conflict. What
emerges is a complex and
subtle portrait of a
beautiful and fascinating
region, blighted by
historical prejudice and
conflict. The revisedand
updated 10th-year
anniversary edition
includes a new forward,
a new chapter covering
developments up to-2011,
such as the election of
new presidents in both
countries, Azerbaijan`s
oil boom and the new arms
race in the region, and
a new conclusion,
analysing the reasons for
the intractability of the
conflict and whether
there are any prospects
for its resolution.
Telling the story of the
first conflict to shake
Mikhail Gorbachev`s
Soviet Union, Black
Garden remains a central
account of the reality of
the post-Soviet world.
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What do `Abu Sindi`,
`Timothy Sean McCormack`,
`Saro`, and `Commander
Avo` all have in common?
They were all aliases for
Monte Melkonian. But who
was Monte Melkonian? In
his native California he
was once a kid in cut-off
jeans, playing baseball
and eating snow cones.
Europe denounced him as
an international
terrorist. His adopted
homeland of Armenia
decorated him as a
national hero who led a
force of 4000 men to
victory in the Armenian
enclave of Mountainous
Karabagh in Azerbaijan.
Why Armenia? Why adopt
the cause of a remote
corner of the Caucasus
whose peoples had
scattered throughout the
world after the early
twentieth century Ottoman
genocides? Markar
Melkonian spent seven
years unravelling the
mystery of his brother`s
road: a journey which
began in his ancestors`
town in Turkey and
leading to a
blood-splattered square
in Tehran, the Kurdish
mountains, the
bomb-pocked streets of
Beirut, and finally, to
the windswept heights of
Mountainous Karabagh.
Monte`s life embodied the
agony and the follies
bedevelling the end of
the Cold War and the
unravelling of the Soviet
Union. Yet, who really
was this man? A terrorist
or a hero?”My Brother`s
Road” is not just the
story of a long journey
and a short life, it is
an attempt to understand
what happens when one man
decides that terrible
actions speak louder than
words.
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As a child in Turkey,
Fethiye Cetin knew her
grandmother as a happy
and well respected Muslim
housewife. Decades later,
her grandmother revealed
the truth: she was by
birth a Christian
Armenian, and most of
the men in the village
where she grew up were
slaughtered in 1915. In
this heartwrenching
memoir, Cetin tells a
powerful story that
breaks the silence
surrounding the Armenian
genocide.
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