"In this memoir, a soldier in World War I gives on-the-ground accounts of key battles and events. He survives the Battle of Sarikamish on the Turkish-Russian front where the Ottoman Third Army was demolished. He is soon relegated into a labor battalion only to discover the battalions will not be repairing bridges and roads but burying the dead in the first major genocide of the 20th century: the Armenian Genocide in which his own people are destroyed in the Ottoman Empire. When the armed escort of his labor battalion grows ...
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"In this memoir, a soldier in World War I gives on-the-ground accounts of key battles and events. He survives the Battle of Sarikamish on the Turkish-Russian front where the Ottoman Third Army was demolished. He is soon relegated into a labor battalion only to discover the battalions will not be repairing bridges and roads but burying the dead in the first major genocide of the 20th century: the Armenian Genocide in which his own people are destroyed in the Ottoman Empire. When the armed escort of his labor battalion grows increasingly violent, he escapes and reaches the underground railroad run by Dersim Kurds. He finds safety there, and he participates in the 1916 Dersim Kurd rebellion against the Ottoman Empire. When Armenian fighters battle to establish the First Republic of Armenia, he joins them. He ends up enlisting in an auxiliary unit of the French Foreign Legion and leading battles in Cilicia (bordering the Mediterranean Sea) to protect Armenian survivors"--
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