The burning Tigris

Description

A History of International Human Rights and Forgotten HeroesIn 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.

First Sentence

The light in New England in late fall is austere and clean and rinses the white steeples of Boston's Congregational and Unitarian churches, the red brick of the State House, and the gray stone of the Back Bay town houses.

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Other Editions

• The burning Tigris: the Armenian genocide and America's responseHarperCollins2003-01-01
• The Burning TigrisHarperCollins2003-01-01
• The burning TigrisHarperCollins2003-01-01
• Burning TigrisHardcoverDiane Pub Co2003-01-30
• The burning TigrisW. Heinemann2004-01-01
• The Burning TigrisPaperbackHarper Perennial2004-10-05