Books : The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 956.21
EAN: 9780060558703
ISBN: 0060558709
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 528
Publication Date: October 01, 2004
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: October 05, 2004
Sales Rank: 442669
Studio: Harper Perennial
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A History of International Human Rights and Forgotten Heroes
In this national bestseller, the critically acclaimed author Peter Balakian brings us a riveting narrative of the massacres of the Armenians in the 1890s and of the Armenian Genocide in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. Using rarely seen archival documents and remarkable first-person accounts, Balakian presents the chilling history of how the Turkish government implemented the first modern genocide behind the cover of World War I. And in the telling, he resurrects an extraordinary lost chapter of American history.
Awarded the Raphael Lemkin Prize for the best scholarly book on genocide by the Institute for Genocide Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY Graduate Center.
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I think that the resources upon which this book is based are excellent! Written in a quasi-scholarly manner, I found this to be an easy read, in general. The denial of realities, perhaps somewhat exaggerated but, nevertheless true, so so often is an indication of attachment to the issue and possibly a tendency to return to the behavior (genocide). Given the genocides of World War II, I would imagine that the tendency and justification would be greater than pre-WWII. The precarious situation in which the United States finds itself (Turkish admission or ongoing access to EU / NATO / support of an Islamic state for US wars and support of US involvement in Iraq through use of military aircraft / equipment / troops) is not lost. The biggest frustration that I had with this text is that it jumped around, across dates (e.g., talking about 1895 and then 1830 and then 1900) and across topics. It's hard to organize a text as comprehensive as this one, and the above criticism should not be taken as much reason to give the potential reader to not purchase this outstanding text! Well worth the read, used or new!!!
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Excellent Book that brings out the truth about the Armenian Genocide and Turkish intention for committing it.
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This has been a great book. It reads well, is fairly easy to follow, and is full of info. It does jump around a bit, as do most history books. I am just about finished reading this, and I can't help but noticing the parralells to the Nazi's genocide 30+ years into the future. They were present throughout WW1.
Turkey can hoot & holler all it wants to, but I will never believe they played no part in all this, as they claim to this day. Why would a nation of hard-working, unarmed christians attack a superior, weaponized warrior-people? Just as today there is no room in Turkey for peoples other than muslims, has it been for nearly six hundred years.
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This book is full of well-documented facts and quotes related to the continued massacres of the people of Armenia and those living in other countries under Turkish rule.
The chronological format allows readers a comprehensible "understanding" of each successive "event" from the late-1800s thru the failed post-World War I efforts of international leaders to establish and protect a free and independent Armenia following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
My hope is that a well-known movie director will ask author Peter Balakian to write a screen play based upon this book. It would be more gripping and powerful than SCHINDLER!S LIST!
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"The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response", Peter Balakian, HarperCollins, NY, 2003, ISBN 0-06-019840-0, HC 392 pgs., plus Notes 40 pgs., Biblio. 10 pgs., Index 15 pgs., 3 Maps & 15 pgs. B/W photos, etc. 9 1/4" x 6 1/4"
A brilliant, intimate narrative of multiple massacres of Armenian peoples is set forth by accomplished writer Peter Balakian, a Professor of Humanities. The book is divided into 4 parts: I Emergence of Human Rights, II Turkish Road to Genocide, III American Witess(es), & IV Failed Mission. The Epilogue "Turkish Denial...and U.S. Complicity" is especially informative & revealing of those motives behind inaction by various world powers whose true motives, eminently, the U.S., were bound up in an insatiable pursuit for stakes in oil reserves, especially those in Mesopotamia, & for military bases in the Near East, especially Turkey.
Historically, we are informed Armenia was conquered by Caesar in 63 B.C., adopted Christianity by 301 A.D., was driven into Cilicea by Seljuk Turks in 11th Century, destroyed by Muslim Mamluks in 1375 then overrun by oppressive Ottoman Turks (Muslim) in 1443 who legally designated them "infidels". The crumbling Ottoman Empire headed by the "bloody sultan" Turkish caliph Abdul Hamid II from August 31, 1876 to July 24, 1908 is credited with the "Hamidian massacres" or "holocaust" of 5,000 - 200,000 Armenians in Erzinjan. Sultan's power, assumed by nationalist "Young ... Read More
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