Memoirs of a Stranger
(Aug. 26 / 1920 - March 18 / 1921)

Following World War I, while held in pre-trial detention by the British on the island of Malta, Tala'at Pasha (1874-1921), the leader of the Young Turks and the former Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, along with others facing charges of war crimes, including the systematic murders of the Armenian people (internationally recognized today as The Armenian Genocide), were secretly released. Tala'at., and 6 others, including Ismail Enver Pasha (1881-?), the former Ottoman Minister of War, and Ahmed Djemal Pasha (1872-1922), a top military official and the former Governor of Ottoman Syria, all later tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in absentia by an Ottoman Court Tribunal, boarded the German torpedo boat Lorelei on the night of November 1, 1918, heading to Berlin, Germany.

For over 2 years, they planned their return to power, receiving protection of the German government and direct political and material support from New York bankers and businessmen, who had great influence over the United States military and government, and had originally brought the Young Turks to power in 1908, in order to depose the Sultan and destabilize the Ottoman Empire from within. MEMOIRS Of A STRANGER, was written by Shahan Natalie (1884-1983), the President of the Armenian Diaspora Writer Union, and the creator, mastermind, and leader of the execution team that was officially tasked by the Armenian Ambassador to the United States, Dr. Garegin Pastermadjian (1872-1923), of carrying out the Ottoman court issued death sentences, as well as legal executions under the 1907 Hague Convention Laws of War.

Natalie, chronicles the most accurate non-fiction account of the hunt and successful execution of Tala'at Pasha, by a rag-tag motley crew Natalie had cobbled together of mostly unwilling Armenian-German recruits. Under the most unfavorable conditions, Natalie’s team terminated Tala'at Pasha, which had they failed, the country of Armenia would most likely have been wiped off the face of the Earth, and Tala'at would have taken his predestine seat as the founder of “Modern” Turkey, rather than Mustafa Kemal (1881-1938), former Ottoman field marshal, who was also a convicted war criminal, sentenced to death, and whom is famously known as Atatürk, the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, who served as its first president from 1923 until his untimely death in 1938.