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Seller's Description:
Very good. No dust jacket. This PB would have been rated FINE, but for the highlighting/underlining, mostly confined to the last chapter. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2", Three Parts, b/w photographic sections, several maps. 206 pages. From the back cover: "The premeditated, ruthless, official campaign by the Turkish government to exterminate Turkey's Armenian minority--which began in 1895--ground relentlessly through 27 years and two million deaths." The photographs are quite difficult. This is better than a reading copy, but the items noted above have made this a highly advantageous price.
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Seller's Description:
Good in Fair jacket. 24 cm. [10], 206 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Front DJ flap price clipped, Ex-Library with usual library markings (some blacked over). Author's poignant memory of Turkey's 1895-1922 premeditated, ruthless, official campaign to exterminate its Armenian minority. Derived from a Kirkus review: This, written by one of its few survivors, is a powerful, painful account of atrocity, murder, and corruption. Mr. Hartunian, who became one of the religious leaders of the Armenian people during their quarter-century of persecution, offers an impassioned condemnation not only the Turkish "monsters" but of Western powers who stood by or even abetted massacre--the betrayal of the French in particular. From 1899, when a verse from the Bible cost him thirteen months in prison, to the later death marches, wholesale rape and savagery, torture and annihilation until the final purge at Smyrna as the city burned, there is blood on every page. The story seems incredible, even after the enlightenment of the gas chambers, and if the tone seems hysterical at times, it is perhaps justified. Neither to laugh nor to weep but to understand, Spinoza's tenet and an imperative reason for this book. So that we can not only understand but prevent the past as prelude to the future.
