Armenian Genocide, The
News Accounts from the American Press: 1915-1922

Paperback
(Number: BHG0170)
$150.00
2011 San Francisco
392 pages
Size: 8 1/2" x 11"
Language(s): English

Kloian's book presents a compelling chronicle of the Armenian Genocide, the systematic deportations and massacres of the Armenians of theOttoman Empire, perpetrated by the Turkish governing authorities between 1915 and 1922. Here in one monumental 400 page book is a compilation of New York Times articles, magazine stories, eyewitness accounts, and official documents, as they were first published in the American press of the day. Reports inU.S.newspapers of the 1890-1909 massacres and the 1915 genocide galvanized the entire nation, spawning the first international human rights movement in theUnited States, including protests and unprecedented national relief efforts.

Included in this book:

  • 200 articles from The New York Times, 1890-1915
  • 68 articles from fourteen American journals
  • American Ambassador Morgenthau's personal account of the genocide
  • Lord Bryce's report on Turkish atrocities inArmenia
  • Accounts by German, Turkish, Italian & Danish eyewitnesses
  • Scores of eyewitness survivor accounts
  • Telegrams by Turkish Interior Minister, Talaat Pasha, admitting genocide
  • Transcript of theOttoman Military Courttrial indictment and death sentences for the former leaders for war crimes
  • Photographs of the deportations and massacres

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