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"They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide

By Ronald Grigor Suny

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9781400865581
DOI
10.1515/9781400865581
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6170954 bytes)
Series
Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity; 23
Pages
520\517
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-25 21:15:02

Description

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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