More By and About This Author. We’d love your help. Balakian, who wrote so movingly of the impact of the genocide on his own family in Peanut Press/Palm Reader - 528 pages - 978-0-06-154471-2

The accounts are so hideous that one has to read it with some detachment. Diplomats stationed in Turkey played a courageous role; some of the most detailed chronicles of Turkish brutality are the result of consular documents. Writing is tedious but I am glad to know so much more about such events, the precursor of the Jewish holocaust but arguably more personal and cruel.

Writing is tedious but I am glad to know so much more about such events, the precursor of the Jewish holocaust but arguably more personal and cruel. The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response Balakian is an excellent writer albeit long winded at times and intense on facts.

(That wasn't so fair, nor was it balanced, right?) Imagine my surprise when I discovered America's response to the Armenian Genocide was outrage, anger, and what became the first nationwide humanitarian relief effort.

Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. During the genocides (late 1800s and early 1900s) and thereafter the Turkish government has sought to deny it occurred.It’s always difficult to read about crimes against humanity.

Bearing witness to this tragic tale is an important part of my enlightenment. I knew how it has been neglected in many ways in the world’s consciousness, but until reading this I didn’t understand why. But this is an important read; it is an event that we need to know about, and make sure that it never happens again.As an Armenian, I found this a tough read emotionally but sadly, a necessary evil. Very powerful.Very thoroughly researched, with many references and author's notes. But he doesn't say what.

Eye-opening, excellent read for anyone wishing to acquaint themselves with the Armenian Genocide. Full of accurate information and good scholarly research to tell the story of what happened the Armenians and how America handled it.An informative book about the first genocide of the 20th century. His conclusion seems to be that we (the American government) should have done something impressive to help. Not a thousand years ago. This site is like a library, Use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Using German built railroads and rolling stock (such as cattle cars) with German military observers in government offices the Turkish government sought to make Turkey a homogeneous country in which only ethnic Turks lived. But he doesn't say what. I recently viewed a movie titled, ARARAT. I also didn’t understand how much it was a replay of the massacres of 20 years earlier. I think for anyone who doubts the realty of genocide, particularly the Armenian genocide, read this book. He writes with grace and power. I found it useful in establishing some explanation for why America's interest in and knowledge of these events (particularly those of the 1890s, 1909, and 1915) has declined to almost nil after times of almost fever-pitch attention to and concern for "the starving Armenians", to wit: (1) isolationist Republican sentiment about US's post WWI global responsibilities; (2) economic potential of petroleum reserves in the former Ottoman Empire; (3) vast real estate holding of American Protestant missionaries in Anatolia; (4) The "Red Scare" and the "Cold War" reaction to (a) what the Bolshevik revolution had done to Russia's economic structures; (b) Turkey as an ally against the Soviet Union on whose southern boarder it lay; (c) the resultant state of Armenia falling behind the Iron Curtain. Declare war on the Turks?

The current Turkish government vehemently denies it. Because they were dhimmis, the Armenians were not allowed to own weapons. Welcome back. It is said that denial is the final stage of the act of genocide against a people. She highlighted the fact that Armenians were hated for being Christian, and that because theyBack in my junior year of college, one of my teachers was a doctoral student of Armenian decent. Those are very noble things, but it comes down to American lives being put on the line for a cause that in no way benefits the American people. can't lose military bases!) As someone with no knowledge of the topic and minimal knowledge of the historical period, I would have gotten more out of it if it were part of a class or lecture series. "The Burning Tigris does succeed in resurrecting a little-known chapter of the American and as well as the Armenian history" - The New York Times.

If you care about the suffering of people, this book is a necessary read. ), thanks to her dad's work and claim asylum in Canada. Armenians across the world say it happened. Permanently station soldiers in Armenia? Let’s face it, 2020 is making us long for other timelines. Was generally bored by the chapters about what Americans were doing for Armenia. deaths to abuse and starvation) of between one million and two million children, women and men. Take your time with it as it is not an easy read to digest nor would I classify it as a beach read by any means. It was a huge world event in its time (in America particularly) but thanks to Turkish denial and American government timidity (can't lose oil contracts!

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